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3 in family killed in Maguindanao del Norte ambush
COTABATO CITY (Tuesday, September 2, 2025) — Gunmen killed a 34-year-old ethnic Maguindanaon farmer, his wife and their adolescent daughter in an ambush on Monday, September 1, in Barangay Nalinan in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte. Municipal officials and ranking personnel of the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station told reporters on Tuesday, September 2,…
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Dawlah Islamiya’s fund keeper arrested
COTABATO CITY (Monday, September 1, 2025) — Policemen arrested the wife of a Dawlah Islamiya leader, handling funds for procurement of components for improvised explosive devices obtainable in local establishments, in an operation near the Cotabato Airport in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on Monday morning, September 1. The 31-year-old Jasmiya Camsa Ibrahim, a…
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Drunk cop kills live-in partner with service pistol
COTABATO CITY (Monday, September 1, 2025) — A drunk off-duty policeman shot dead his live-in partner and wounded her mother in a gun rage in their house in Barangay Zone 3 in Digos City on Sunday night, August 31. The suspect, Patrolman Orland Porquido Dinoy, 30, who was immediately disarmed and detained by barangay officials…
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Grenade blast rocks Cotabato City village
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, August 31, 2025) — Two men riding a motorcycle together blasted before dawn Saturday, August 30, a fragmentation grenade near the residential yard of a barangay official overtly supporting the law-enforcement activities of the police in this city. Col. Jibin Bongcayao, director of the Cotabato City Police Office, told reporters on Sunday,…
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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…