Grenade lobbed at North Cotabato school; no one hurt
By Edwin O. Fernandez
A grenade was lobbed at the Kabacan Pilot Elementary School in Kabacan, North Cotabato shortly before midnight on Sunday, the military said Monday.
A grenade was lobbed at the Kabacan Pilot Elementary School in Kabacan, North Cotabato shortly before midnight on Sunday, the military said Monday.
Close to 100 families in Matalam, North Cotabato have fled to safer ground as rival Moro rebels clash Sunday night, police said Monday.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said it has filed drugs and weapons charges against 36 persons rounded up in Maguindanao this week.
Two persons were killed in an ambush in Banisilan, North Cotabato, on Tuesday in what authorities believed was part of the “rido” (family feud) involving a village chair and another family identified with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Police and military authorities said extortion was the likely motive behind the bombing of a passenger bus in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat on Saturday night that left six persons wounded.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – At least five persons were hurt when an improvised explosive device planted at the baggage compartment of a passenger bus went off at 6 p.m. in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, on Saturday, authorities said. Senior Supt. Rolen Balquin, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said the blast occurred around 6 p.m. during [...]
The decommissioning of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF), the armed wing of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and the disarmament of its members will not take place overnight even if a final peace deal is signed, according to the chairman of the government’s peace panel.
Acting Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has ordered the arrest of men posing as traffic law enforcers along highways in Maguindanao and mulcting commuters.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. In fact, there are Santa Clauses. They arrived immediately after Typhoon “Pablo” hit Mindanao. Most of them are soldiers from the 10th Infantry Division, who, along with rescue workers, were among the first to come, braving floods, mud and fallen trees to save lives in the provinces of Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has disqualified 280,077 people from voting in next year’s polls in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which has been derisively called the country’s cheating capital during elections.
Two persons were killed and three were injured in a gun battle that erupted between two Moro clans in interior villages of this town Sunday, the police said Monday.
The Commission on Elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has deleted 280,077 applicants from the voters’ list.
Two Army intelligence operatives conducting surveillance operations against two suspects in the Maguindanao massacre were shot and wounded in Sultan Kudarat province on Sunday, the military here said.
