BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

KALAMANSIG,
Sultan Kudarat – Suspected communist
guerrillas ambushed and killed Thursday workers and an official of M and S logging
firm operating in the mountains of this town.

Senior
Inspector Glenn Mar B. Avisa, Kalamansig PNP officer in charge, identified the
fatality as Edgardo Valenzuela, 62, area supervisor of M andamp S Logging
company, Rolando Toledo, 28, company guard and Nel Anthony Perreza, driver.

Another
company guard, Jimmy Torion, was not hurt but the gunmen took his service
firearm.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) -- A former municipal councilor of Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat was killed on Wednesday night in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the area.Supt. Joefel Siason, Isulan police chief, said Thursday victim Elno Segura, 37, was on his way home aboard his gray Honda Civic sedan when he was waylaid by two motorcycle-riding suspects at a portion of Purok PC Barracks in Barangay Kalawag II at around 9:30 p.m.He said Segura has just left the residence of his girlfriend near the area when the incident happened. It appeared to be a well-planned attack.

MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato- Police here arrested two men engaged in illegal drug trade during a raid in Barangay Poblacion 3 Tuesday dawn.Supt.

KORONADAL CITY - Like humans, animals also suffer the agonizing heat during the prolonged drought that hit Mindanao, the South Cotabato provincial veterinary office today said.Easily affected by heat stroke due to the dry spell are hogs and cows, according to Flora Bigot, acting chief ofprovincial veterinary office. She advised hog traders to transport the animals at dawn or before sunrise to save the animal from heat stroke. Two hog farms are producing 12,000 metric tons of meat in 2014.

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao - Chief Supt. Ronald R. Estilles, regional director of the police in the Autonomous Regional in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Chief Inspector Gilbert C. Ilagan, PNP-ARMM chaplainon Monday led the blessing ceremonies of 18motorcycles for policemen in the region.Accompanying Chief Supt.Estilles and Chief Inspector Ilaganwere the directorial staff of PNP-ARMM.The blessing of motorcycles was done done after the traditional flag raising ceremonies inside Camp Gen. SK Pendatun in Parang, Maguindanao.

DATU PAGLAS, Maguindanao--- A raging night fire has brought at least 100 families homeless in Poblacion Datu Paglas on Friday night.

MANILA (PNA) -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Friday announced that the number of Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits killed in a fierce engagement in Patikul town, Sulu climbed to nine from 6 reported Thursday.The number of wounded brigands also soared to 14 or four higher than the 10 reported April 9.AFP public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc said such information was based on the updated report by field units who conducted clearing operations in the encounter site.

KORONADAL CITY - Following the foiled bombing attempt at a bus in Tacurong City, police authorities here and in South Cotabato have placed all its units on heightened alert. We are on heightened alert, we seek the cooperation of the public, Supt.

TACURONG CITY – A week before the discovery of a powerful improvised explosive device inside a Yellow Bus Line unit here, police and military operatives have received intelligence information about bombing plot by a lawless group, police and military officials said.Senior Supt.

KORONADAL CITY - An employee of the South Cotabato provincial government is now languishing in jail after he was arrested during an illegal drug bust operation Tuesday, police said today.Chief Inspector John Erick Medel, police chief of Tantangan, South Cotabato, identified the suspect as Danilo Ramos Cabalse, resident of Barangay San Felipe, Tantangan. Cabalse, 48,is an employee of South Cotabato Agriculture Office. He was arrested following a buy bust operations conducted by the PNP in Barangay New Lambunao, Tantangan at past 7 p.m.