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Flood victims in Datu Blah Sinsuat gets food aid
COTABATO CITY (Monday, August 25, 2025) — Villagers in flood-stricken riverside areas in Datu Blah Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte received food rations from their municipal government unit during a relief operation by local executives over the weekend. The humanitarian mission by the local government unit of Datu Blah Sinsuat, more known as the…
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Family of slain CAFGU member gets food aid from Army
COTABATO CITY (Sunday, August 24, 2025) — The Army’s 40th Infantry Battalion and the 602nd Infantry Brigade had provided with rice and other food supplies the family of the 25-year-old militiaman killed in a grenade attack on Saturday morning in Barangay Nalapaan in Malidegao town in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area in Cotabato province. Relatives…
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6th ID collects more firearms from Cotabato residents
COTABATO CITY (August 22, 2025) —- Residents of far-flung towns in Cotabato, where state security forces and Moro secessionist rebels figured in deadly clashes in past decades, surrendered 22 more firearms and large home-made bombs to an Army unit on Thursday, August 21. The cache, consisting of M16 and M14 assault rifles, long-range bolt-action sniper…
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317 Cotabato City villagers benefit from medical mission
COTABATO CITY (August 22, 2025) Up to 317 villagers, including pregnant women and children, in two barangays in Cotabato City — Mother Bagua and Bagua 1 — benefitted from the latest medical mission of one of the 80 members of the Bangsamoro regional parliament. Barangay officials and traditional community leaders separately told reporters on Friday,…
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Drug den in Cotabato City shut, 5 operators nabbed
Anti-narcotics agents seized P102,000 worth of shabu from five drug den operators entrapped in Barangay Poblacion Mother in this city at about noon Thursday, August 21, 2025. Ranking members of the multi-sector Cotabato City Peace and Order Council, which is led by Mayor Bruce Matabalao, told reporters that the suspects, Datu Rasid Candao Emba, Marlon…
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16 explosives found in abandoned NPA lair in South Cotabato
Soldiers found 16 large home-made compact explosives, which can be used as landmines or rigged with blasting devices that can be detonated from a distance using mobile phones, in an operation in Barangay Maan in T’boli, South Cotabato on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Army Major Gen. Donald Gumiran, commander of the 6th Infantry Division, said…
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3 shabu dealers busted in PDEA Tawi-Tawi operation
Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency had clamped down three seafarers, selling shabu from one island to another, in an entrapment operation Barangay Boki in Mapun, Tawi-Tawi on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Local executives in Mapun, an island town in Tawi-Tawi in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, told reporters on Thursday, August…
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Wanted person killed, cohort arrested in Maguindanao del Norte
A murder suspect, also a known longtime narcotics trafficker, was killed while his companion was arrested in a police operation on Tuesday night, August 19, 2025 in Barangay Tamontaka in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte. Brig. Gen. Jaysen De Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters on Wednesday…