CAMP S.K. PENDATUN, April 19 -- The head of the Police Regional Office -Bangsamoro Autonomous Region on Friday ordered a manhunt against gunmen who ambushed a police patrol car and injured a police officer in Lanao del Sur.

"This is a reprehensible act of violence against our security forces," Brig. Gen. Prexy Tanggawohn said in an interview Friday, referring to the attack on a police patrol car of the Picong municipal police station on Thursday morning that left Patrolman Hashemi Lidasan Sumusod wounded on his right hand.

Picong police personnel were aboard the patrol vehicle on their way back to the station when waylaid by unidentified armed individuals in Barangay Micolabo of the municipality.

Sumusod was taken to a hospital for med...