BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

COTABATO CITY - Like father, like son.Corporal Gerald Aparte of the 11thScout Ranger Company and his father, Zosimo, a militiaman, were both killed in separate encounters with state enemies in defense of the Philippine flag and the nation it stands for.Aparte was killed in an encounter with Maute terrorists in Marawi City Friday, 34 years after his father, a member of the now defunct Citizens Home Defense Force, perished in a gunfight with Moro rebels who raided their village in Barangay Limulan in Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat.He was still an infant when his father got killed, according to re

COTABATO CITY --- Teachers in Moro provinces are now recovering from troubles caused by the embezzlement of their monthly premiums to the Government Service Insurance System.More than P100 million worth of premiums deducted from salaries of teachers in the Department of Education-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in years prior to 2011 mysteriously failed to reach the GSIS, causing them serious constraints.John Magno, incumbent regional secretary of ARMM, said on Saturday that the GSIS awarded his office last Friday a special citation for efficiency in collection of loan repayments from

LANAO DEL SUR --- The police lost six men in gunfights since May 23 in Marawi City that also left 61 personnel injured as quiet share in government losses in the fight against terrorists in the area.Reports obtained on Friday from the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao indicated that a policeman, PO1 Mohaimin Nato, has also been missing since the hostilities in Marawi City erupted.Chief Superintendent Reuben Theodore Sindac, director of PRO-ARMM, this news outfit Friday that efforts to locate Nato are still underway.Some of the 61 PRO-ARMM personnel wounded badly in

LANAO DEL SUR --- Emergency teams on Thursday buried 40 more cadavers of unidentified people killed in gunfights in Marawi City in recent weeks.Forensic experts have collected DNA samples from the cadavers that were buried in case needed for cross-matching with specimens from relatives.The burial of the 40 cadavers was facilitated jointly by personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection, the Lanao del Sur provincial government, the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the military and the Department of Interior and Local Government.Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr.

MANILA-- Areas controlled by the Maute Group terrorists in Marawi City has now shrunk to around 5 to 7 hectares.This was disclosed by AFP public affairs Col.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Five of the 17 hostages rescued by soldiers before dawn Wednesday from the Maute terror group are teachers in the Dansalan College in Marawi City.Senior officials of the Department of Education said Wednesday they are grateful to security forces that rescued the teachers, now in undergoing tactical debriefing.Officials of the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao told this news outfit that the hostages were rescued amid gunfights around the remaining area in Barangay Lumbac Marinaut in Marawi City where Maute gunmen are still holding out.The five teac

LANAO DEL SUR --- Residents in five Maranao-dominated towns surrendered 140 assorted firearms Monday in support of a domestic disarmament program of the Philippine Army.The firearms were comprised of M-16 assault rifles, launchers for B-40 anti-tank rockets, shotguns, home-made .50 caliber Barret rifles, M1 Garand and Carbine rifles and 40 millimeter grenade launchers.Local executives in Lanao del Sur’s adjoining Kapatagan, Malabang, Picong and Marogong towns turned over the firearms they collected from their constituents to officials of the Army’s 6thInfantry Battalion and the 603rdBrigade

QUEZON CITY -- A Muslim lady legislator today has resigned from her position as lawmaker representing Anak Mindanao Party-list to shift her focus anew on community work in Mindanao.From legislating,Anak Mindanao Party-list Rep.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Muslim military and police personnel guarded on Sunday their Catholic companions while attending mass in a church that militants occupied when they laid siege to Marawi City on May 23.Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr. of the Western Mindanao Command said Monday that Captain Alfredo Era, Jr. led the Sunday mass at the St.

LANAO DEL SUR – Maute gunmen killed two soldiers in clashes Friday as government forces maneuvered through streets in a four-block spot in Marawi City where remnants of the group are still holding out.Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr.