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P60.5-M worth shabu seized in Zamboanga City
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, August 31, 2025) — Policemen seized from three couriers 89 kilos of shabu, costing P60.9 million, in an anti-narcotics operation in Barangay Rio Hondo in Zamboanga City early Sunday, August 25. Local executives and members of the multi-sector Zamboanga City Peace and Order Council told reporters at noon Sunday that the suspects,
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2 large-scale shabu peddlers in Zamboanga Sibugay busted
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, August 30, 2025) — Two peddlers, long under surveillance for their large-scale trafficking of shabu, were entrapped by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement-9 in Barangay Crossing Santa Clara in Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay on Wednesday, August 27. Local executives, among them members of the multi-sector Naga Municipal Peace and Order Council, told
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Unity of leaders expected to boost economy in Moro bastions
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, August 30, 2025) — Merchants are optimistic of improvements soon in the investment climate in Bangsamoro towns in Central Mindanao and in this City now that provincial governors in the region are cooperating in regional security and economic programs. Officials of the influential Bangsamoro Business Council (BBC) told reporters on Saturday, August
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3 kids, mixer truck driver dead in highway mishap
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, August 30, 2025) — Three male grade school children walking along a highway and a driver of a concrete mixer truck all died in a highway accident in Sitio Balagunon in Barangay Managa in Bansalan, Davao del Sur on Friday, August 29, 2025. Officials of the Bansalan Municipal Police Station and the
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2 terror group members killed in Maguindanao del Sur
COTABATO CITY (Saturday, August 30, 2025) — Two members of local terror groups were killed in a clash with soldiers they shot with pistols for trying to stop them for a peaceful routine inspection at a checkpoint in Barangay Tuka in Mamasapano, Maguindanao del Sur on Friday, August 29, 2025. Captain Giuseppe Tamayo, spokesperson of
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`Raayat Day’ in once hostile Basilan town
COTABATO CITY (Thursday, August 28, 2025) — Villagers from across the now peaceful Tuburan town in Basilan benefitted from an extensive day-long outreach mission of the office of Gov. Mujiv Hataman on Wednesday. Radio reports on Thursday, August 28, stated that the activity, dubbed Raayat Day, was planned by Hataman, meant to maximize the delivery
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3 fishermen from mainland Mindanao killed in Sulu
COTABATO CITY (Wednesday, August 27, 2025) — Gunmen in a watercraft shot dead three ethnic Maguindanaons while fishing in the sea few miles off Barangay Kabingaan in Tapul town in Sulu on Saturday, August 23. Officials of the Sulu Provincial Police Office and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region reported on Wednesday, August 27, that
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Husband, pregnant wife killed in highway robbery
COTABATO CITY (Wednesday, August 27, 2025) — Robbers killed a couple in a nighttime highway heist on Monday, August 25, in Barangay Ugalingan in Carmen town in Cotabato. Senior officials of the Cotabato Provincial Police Office told reporters on Wednesday, August 27, that Jezreel Tua Ramirez, 34, and his 33-year-old pregnant spouse, Jean, were together