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COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) shares an NGCP scheduled power service interruption in Maguindanao Norte on Sept. 17, Sunday, which will also affect the whole franchise area of the Aboitiz power firm in Cotabato City and nearby towns.

The interruption, per NGCP advisory, will begin at 7:05 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and again from 5:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

LIBUNGAN, North Cotabato - Sugatan ang isang negosyante matapos na barilin at agawan ng kanyang bag na naglalaman ng tinatayang higit sa P80,000 sa Barangay Cabpangi kagabi.

Naganap ang pamamaril alas 6:40 ng gabi sa harap ng bahay ng biktima. Kararating lang ni Juan Librea sa kanyang bahay sakay ng motorsiklo na minamaneho ni Jasper Boston nang agawin ng isa sa tatlong mga suspect ang kanyang bag, ayon kay Libungan town chief Major John Minidel Calinga.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company announces today about the scheduled power interruption affecting customers in Tabunaway, Boulevard, Cotabato City on Wednesday, September 13, 2023, from 7:00 AM - 12:00 NN (5 hours).

This is to facilitate restructuring of primary line maintenance activity in the area.

Scheduled service interruption on:

September 12, 2023 (Tuesday)

Time 4:30PM-5:00PM

Affected: Feeder 13

Portion of Koronadal covering the following: Portion of Brgy. Paraiso, Purok Nursery, Victory Homes, Purok Tuburan, Prk Hillside, Alunan Ave. to roundball, Bonifacio-Marañon Circuit, Abad Santos St., ProTech Center, DPWH, Prov’l. Capitol & Hospital, NDMU Complex, South Cotabato Gym, Bonifacio-Mabini Circuit and St. Anthony Cathedral. Brgy. Tinongcop, Tantangan,

COTABATO CITY - To all our valued customers, please be informed of the scheduled power interruption affecting customers in De Mazenod Avenue, Cotabato City on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, from 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM (2 hours).

This is to facilitate restructuring of primary line maintenance activity in the area.

MAKILALA, NORTH COTABATO - Bangkay na nang maiahon ang 15 anyos na lalaki matapos malunod habang naliligo sa ilog ng Barangay Talun-Talunan, Makilala, North Cotabato alas 2:00 ng hapon kahapon.

Kasamang naligo ng binata na si John Vincent Amodia ng Sitio Fatima, Poblacion, Makilala, North Cotabato ang apat na iba pang kaibigan.

Napadako anya sa malalim na parte ng ilog at nadulas ang indibidwal at nabatid na hindi ito marunong lumangoy.

Matapos ang ilang oras na search and rescue operation, natagpuan ang kanyang bangkay alas 11:00 kagabi.

COTABATO CITY -The police and military together intensified cooperation against trafficking of illegal drugs in this city and in nearby provinces following the seizure of P18.6 million worth of shabu in three separate anti-narcotics operations here in just six days.

COTABATO CITY - A candidate for barangay councilor was killed in a daytime gun attack in Pikit, NOrth Cotabato Wednesday, the second in the province in just seven days.

Major Arvin John B. Cambang, Pikit municipal police chief, said Thursday that the slain Rhoyden L. Flores died on the spot from a gunshot wound in the head.

Flores was a candidate for councilor in their barangay government in Takepan in Pikit, home to mixed Muslim and Christian settlers.

COTABATO CITY — An intelligence-driven inter-agency operation led by *the PDEA BARMM RIOT, PDEA Maguindanao, PDEA RSET and PDEA Lanao del Sur has led to the confiscation of more or less 1,100 grams of shabu and the arrests of a former police officer during a buy-bust operation at Purok Bulawan, Barangay Mother Bagua l, Cotabato City on September 06, 2023.

COTABATO CITY - State agents seized P3.4 million worth of shabu from an alleged peddler here late Tuesday, raising to P11.2 million the total value of the narcotics confiscated in separate operations in this city in just five days.

Christian O. Frivaldo, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-BARMM), said Wednesday that suspect Toraife Saikol Andi, who had sold P3.4 million worth of shabu to their agents, is now detained.