1 killed, 1 hurt in Zamboanga del Sur gun attack
By Jamie Marie Elona
One was killed while another was injured Tuesday when they were fired upon by armed men in Zamboanga del Sur, police said Wednesday.
One was killed while another was injured Tuesday when they were fired upon by armed men in Zamboanga del Sur, police said Wednesday.
Six former and current members of the staff of Zamboanga del Sur Rep. Aurora Cerilles and her husband, provincial Gov. Antonio Cerilles, have charged the couple with plunder, malversation and falsification in the Office of the Ombudsman.
OZAMIZ CITY—Convicts are barred from seeking elective positions. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) made this ruling on the candidacies of Jalosjos brothers Romeo Sr. and Dominador Jr., citing a law that disqualifies convicts from running for elective posts. Romeo Sr. is a child rape convict while Dominador Jr. has been convicted of robbery. [...]
Nearly two dozen police officials and personnel in Zamboanga del Sur have already been relieved from their posts by their superiors and asked to explain their roles in the operation of Aman Futures Group, which ran a scheme that duped about 15,000 people of some P12 billion in cash, according to the regional police.
A multinational mining firm is limiting the entry of civilians into an area covered by its license to mine in a town in Zamboanga del Sur after receiving intelligence reports about caches of firearms and explosives being smuggled in by illegal miners.
An estimated 10,000 chickens were roasted alive on Friday after alleged communist insurgents torched the poultry farm of a businessman who had refused to pay extortion money in Zamboanga del Sur.
Between 9,000 and 10,000 chickens were roasted Friday when alleged communist insurgents torched the poultry farm of a businessman in Zamboanga del Sur who had supposedly refused to pay them protection money, the military said Saturday.
Authorities on Tuesday started implementing the cease and desist order issued by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) against small-scale miners in Bayog town in Zamboanga del Sur.
Half a ton of cyanide, a highly toxic substance, had been seized by police during a recent raid on what authorities said were illegal mining operations in Zamboanga del Sur.
Police authorities had validated suspicions that some small-scale miners were using industrial-grade cyanide, which may have been illegally acquired, in the processing of gold ore they mine from mining areas in Zamboanga del Sur.
A municipal mayor in Zamboanga del Sur has accused the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) of sowing fear in a village in his town by allegedly massing up forces there.
The House of Representatives will investigate the ambush of a Subanen tribe chieftain which led to the death of his 11-year-old son and the series of violent incidents in a gold-rich mining area allegedly being exploited by illegal mining groups and syndicates in Balabag, Zamboanga del Sur.
ZAMBOANGA CITY—One of the two suspects arrested for the Sept. 4 ambush of a tribal chieftain that killed the tribal leader’s son worked for a security agency that has been guarding a small-scale mining firm, whose operations in a Zamboanga del Sur town are being questioned. Timuay Lucencio Manda, a leader of the Subanen [...]
