A 10-year-old girl and five other persons taken hostage by New People’s Army rebels during a raid on the offices of a security agency here have been freed unharmed, officials said Wednesday.
At least six soldiers, two of them women, were hurt Tuesday morning by a landmine explosion on the Davao-Agusan highway here, an official said.
The lack of electricity after Typhoon “Pablo” brought down power lines in her community last December proved a blessing in disguise for 16-year-old Judy Ann Romano.
Three people, including a 9-year-old boy, were killed in a series of clashes between soldiers and communist rebels in Compostela Valley on Wednesday, according to authorities.
A soldier was killed while two others were wounded when government troops clashed anew with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Mabini, Compostela Valley police and military authorities said in a report released Thursday.
Communist rebels launched near simultaneous attacks against government troops in several towns in Compostela Valley on Monday, police and army officials said.
The National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao on Sunday said it has ordered the release of Police Officer 3 Ruben Nojapa, who was “arrested” by New People’s Army rebels on March 18 during a raid on a village of Nabunturan, Compostela Valley.
The vice mayor of Trento, Agusan del Sur, was killed in a road accident in Prosperidad town early Wednesday, police said.
A banana plantation security guard who just wanted to rescue his co-employees from the floods that hit Kapalong, Davao del Norte, drowned early Thursday while hundreds of other terrified villagers fled from the deluge that also inundated areas in Talaingod town in the same province.
One person was killed while trying to help neighbors as hundreds of terrified villagers fled to safer ground as flash flood swamped two towns in Davao del Norte early Thursday, officials said.
Rescuers continued the search for two people who were reported missing in the massive flooding that has temporarily displaced at least 40,000 people in two southern Mindanao provinces.
Dominga Daipan’s only wish this Christmas is to serve pansit (noodles) as noche buena to her seven children.
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.
