Twelve people were killed and several others were wounded, including the incumbent mayor of Nunungan town, Lanao del Norte, in an ambush Thursday night, police said Friday.
Four persons were killed while six others, including the mayor of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, were wounded after being ambushed by unidentified armed men Thursday evening.
Misamis Occidental authorities have recovered the abducted year-old son of a Pagadian City-based Canadian businessman as the scope of the search and rescue operation for the boy and his nanny widened from Zamboanga del Sur to nearby provinces.
Mayor Samuel Co, in an apparent bid to project himself as among the victims and not a conspirator in the Aman scam, filed a complaint against those behind the activity in the city prosecutor’s office here.
This time, the city will not be caught by surprise. Unlike in December 2011, the city is prepared should tropical storm “Bopha” (to be called “Pablo” when it enters the country) intensify and dump even more rain than storm “Sendong” did, disaster officials said on Friday.
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested on Monday the chief operator and 10 employees of yet another investment scam in Pagadian City.
Violence could explode any time in Lanao del Sur, including this city, as people who invested and lost money in the so-called Rasuman financial scheme are getting restive, authorities said yesterday.
An alleged agent of Aman Futures – the investment company involved in a multi-billion-peso scam in Mindanao and Visayas – was found dead in a Zamboanga del Sur town with a bullet hole in the chest after he was abducted by unidentified men here on Monday.
Unidentified gunmen on Thursday evening shot dead a stalwart of President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte on Thursday evening.
The military shut down the Mindanao State University main campus in Marawi City Thursday as soldiers searched for gunmen who killed three soldiers and wounded 10 others in an ambush there the previous night.
The number of would-be voters in Lanao del Sur is now 16 percent smaller than the 522,000 previously registered and the new list is expected to be trimmed down some more when minors and multiple-registrants are eliminated, the Commission on Elections has announced.
Sulu could become the first province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to come out of notoriety—as far as illegal voters are concerned.
Police authorities here said Sunday they were still piecing together evidence to determine the motive and the identities of bombers in Saturday’s grenade attack that killed two people (not three as earlier reported) and wounded 36 others.
