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Rider dead, companion hurt in uncommon carabao, motorcycle collision
COTABATO CITY (October 17, 2025, Friday) — An off-duty soldier died instantly while his civilian companion was badly injured when the motorcycle they were riding together rammed an astray carabao in Barangay Manuel Roxas in Santo Niño, South Cotabato before dawn Thursday, October 16. The accident fatality belonged to an Army unit based in the…
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Barangay leaders, mining firm cooperating in health services
COTABATO CITY (October 17, 2025, Friday) —- Community leaders, among them ethnic Blaans, and employees of a private firm have fused ranks to provide with health services the marginalized villagers in a far-flung village in the hinterland town of Tampakan in South Cotabato. Ferdinand Encia, chairman of Barangay Buto in Tampakan, told reporters on Thursday,…
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4 shabu dealers linked to Mindanao terror groups busted
COTABATO CITY (October 16, 2025, Thursday) —- Non-uniformed policemen clamped down four drug peddlers, reportedly linked to the two now weakened local terror groups, in separate police operations in this city in two days. Ranking officials of intelligence units under the Army’s 6th Infantry Division and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region confirmed on Thursday,…
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105 Moro sa BARMM nakabenepisyo sa medical mission
Karagdagang 105 pa na mga mahirap na mga residente ng Special Geographic Area, o SGA, ng Bangsamoro region sa probinsya ng Cotabato ang nakinabang sa pinakabagong medical mission ng tanggapan ni Bangsamoro parliament member Kadil Sinolinding, Jr. nitong Lunes, October 13. Ang medical mission sa Barangay Kadigasan sa bagong tatag na bayan ng Nabalawag sa…
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Cop, Cohort jailed for illegal sale of rifles, pistols
COTABATO CITY (October 13, 2025) — A police team clamped down a patrolman from the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and a companion after selling to them two assault rifles and three pistols in an entrapment operation in Davao City before dawn Monday, October 13. The suspect, Patrolman Muhammad Sidomar Gando of PRO-BAR’s Regional Mobile…
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OPAPRU, Basilan governor embark on peacebuilding projects
COTABATO CITY (October 13, 2025) —- The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity and the provincial government of Basilan forged on Thursday, October 9, an agreement to jointly embark on two peacebuilding programs in the island province. The now apparently peaceful Basilan is one of the five provinces in the Bangsamoro…
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Soldiers sent to tremor-stricken Davao towns for relief works
COTABATO CITY (October 12, 2025) —- The Army’s 10th Infantry Division has mobilized more than a thousand soldiers from its units to assist in emergency response and relief efforts in tremor-stricken towns in Davao Oriental. Major Gen. Allan Hambala, commander of the 10th ID, said on Sunday, October 12, that among the first to respond…
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Drug den closed, 3 busted in 2 PDEA-12 operations
COTABATO CITY (October 12, 2025) — Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-12 shutdown a clandestine drug den and arrested three shabu peddlers in two separate operations within four days. Benjamin Recites III, director of PDEA-12, said on Sunday, October 12, that their agents entrapped last Friday, October 10, two shabu dealers together facilitating pot…