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2 bodyguards dead, 2 cops hurt in shootout
Two security escorts of a businessman were killed in a brief clash with policemen tasked to search for firearms in their employer’s house in Barangay Bulakanon in Makilala, Cotabato before dawn Thursday, August 14, 2025 Col. Gilberto Tuzon, director of the Cotabato Provincial Police Office, announced at noontime Thursday that the shootout erupted when Jovito…
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2 trader’s bodyguards killed, cops hurt in shootout
Two security escorts of a businessman were killed in a brief clash with policemen tasked to search for firearms in their employer’s house in Barangay Bulakanon in Makilala, Cotabato before dawn Thursday, August 14, 2025. Col. Gilberto Tuzon, director of the Cotabato Provincial Police Office, announced at noontime Thursday that the shootout erupted when Jovito…
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536 BARMM villagers benefit from medical mission
COTABATO CITY (August 14, 2025) — Up to 536 indigent Muslim and Christian villagers in three barangays in this city benefited from the medical outreach missions early this week of teams from the office of a member of the Bangsamoro regional parliament. Radio reports on Thursday, October 14, in Cotabato City and in nearby provinces…
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Illegal mining crackdown in South Cotabato intensified
Officials of the Region 12 police and two other state law-enforcement agencies are to intensify their crackdown on small-scale copper and gold mining in Tampakan, South Cotabato after two miners got drowned in rampaging floodwaters that swept through their clandestine mine site in the municipality. Local executives and police officials in South Cotabato had reported…
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Engineer killed, 2 hurt in 2 Region 12 ambush incidents
A civil engineer was killed while his wife and an elementary school principal were wounded in separate ambush incidents in two neighboring provinces in Region 12 within just two days. Engineer Kesse Junsan and his wife, Maria, were together on Wednesday morning, August 13, in their black Toyota Fortuner, on their way somewhere, when they…
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Anti-illegal mining campaign in South Cotabato heightened
Officials of the Region 12 police and two other government agencies are to intensify their crackdown on small-scale copper and gold mining in Tampakan, South Cotabato after two miners got drowned in rampaging floodwaters that swept through their clandestine mine site in the municipality. Local executives and police officials in South Cotabato had reported that…
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536 na mga taga BARMM na mahirap, nagamot ng maagap
Abot ng 536 na mga residente ng tatlong mga barangays sa Cotabato City na may iniindang mga karamdaman ang nasuri at nabigyan ng libreng mga gamot sa mga hiwalay na panibagong medical missions ng pangkat ng isang abugadong kasapi ng Bangsamoro parliament at ng mga kawani ng Ministry of Health-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao…
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Moro families receive food rations from BARMM officials
More than 70 marginalized Moro families in the Old Kaabacan town in Cotabato province benefited from a food dispersal activity of Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua and regional lawmaker Doctor Kadil Sinolinding, Jr. on Monday, August 11, 2025. The Old Kaabacan is one of the eight still like infant Bangsamoro towns in Cotabato province in…