ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines -- Police seized some 60 tons of coal from Zamboanga Sibugay while being transported here on Wednesday, police said Thursday.
Superintendent Ludimer Detran, commander of the Police Regional Mobile Group in Western Mindanao, said the two truckloads of mineral coal, which were intercepted along Ayala Highway, were suspected to have been illegally extracted.
Senior Inspector Hado Edding, Ayala police chief, said charges had been filed against the owners of the shipment, whom he did not identify.
