Manila, March 20 -- A suspected drug peddler died in a shootout with police agents following an anti-drug operation Tuesday afternoon in the Maguindanao town of Datu Paglas. Col. Ronald Briones, Maguindanao police chief, said two cops belonging to the Datu Paglas municipal police station were injured in the incident and are now confined in a hospital. "The police agents are now in stable condition," Briones told reporters here Wednesday. Briones said the shootout broke out during a drug sting carried out by joint elements of the Datu Paglas police office and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao with suspect Thong Maido, 44. Police said Maido sensed that he was dealing with a poseur-buyer ...