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NORTH COTABATO --- Investigators are certain a long-time vendetta feud led to the fatal ambush on Monday of two Moro villagers in a remote barangay in Midsayap, North Cotabato.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Tuesday the Midsayap municipal police enlisted the help of local officials in identifying the killers of Maguindanaon farmers Tungas Lawan and Mhid Panegas.Personnel of the municipal police are apprehensive that relatives of the duo could resort to retaliations if the culprits remain scot-free.Lawan and Panegas, both residents

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The military’s disarmament program in Maguindanao has been gaining
headway as more and more local officials and civilians turned in their rifles.

Ten assorted
high powered guns were formally turned over Monday (Mar 5) to the Army’s 601st
Infantry Brigade from residents of Datu Salibo town in Maguindanao. These guns
were earlier turned over by its owners to the 2nd Mechanized
Infantry Battalion and Mayor Norodin Salasal of Datu Salibo.

SULTAN KUDARAT -- Barangay officials in a politically-hostile town in Sultan Kudarat province surrendered 28 military-type firearms to the police on Sunday.Senior Superintendent Raul Supiter of the Sultan Kudarat provincial police said Monday the firearms that leaders in eight barangays in Palimbang turned in were comprised of one M203 rifle fitted with a grenade launcher, M16 rifles, .30 caliber M1 Garand rifles and gauge 12 shotguns.Supiter said the eight barangays --- Namat, Kisek, Kidayan, Maganao, Malatunol, Akol, Lebua and Butril --- accounts for most number of vendetta clan feuds in

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the state-run Cotabato Foundation College for Science and Technology (CFCST) has approved the sabbatical leave filed earlier by Dr.

BAGUMBAYAN,
Sultan Kudarat - Five more communist guerillas from the Indigenous
Peoples (IP) tribe from the mountains of Barangay Sto Nino here have
surrendered to the Army, a military colonel today said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, commander of the 33rd Infantry Battalion welcomed
the surrenderees in simple surrender rites at 9 a.m. today in Barangay Saripinang,
Bagumbayan.

COTABATO CITY ---- Two drug dealers were killed while 23 others were arrested in a series of police operations in Region 12 in the past seven days.Units of the Police Regional Office-12 planned to arrest 32 drug dealers last week, but got only 23 and shot dead two more for refusing to yield peacefully.The ten other targets of PRO-12’s anti-narcotics operations eluded arrest.Chief Superintendent Marcelo Morales of PRO-12 said Sunday police agents were forced to neutralize Ruben Porsuelo and Bobong Jamelo when they fired at the teams approaching their hideouts in Polomolok town in South Cotab

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The untiring support of the local chief executives in Maguindanao on the 6th Infantry Division'scampaign against loose firearms are continuing to progress as more firearms were surrendered Fridaymorning (March 2) in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao. About 15 high and low-powered firearms with magazines and ammunition were surrendered by the local residents of Barangays Meta, Maitumaig, Pananget, Macalag, Tuntungan and Bulayan, all of Datu Unsay to Brigadier General Diosdado C. Carreon, 601st Infantry Brigade commander through town officials of Datu Unsay headed by Hon.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- Despite repeated appeals by government officials and traffic enforcers for motorists to slow down along highways in Makilala, North Cotabato, highway mishaps still happen.The latest of which left one dump truck driver dead when the vehicle he was driving rammed a 10-wheeler truck it was tailing in Patulangon, Purok 11, BarangayPoblacion, Makilala, North Cotabato at about 1 a.m.

COTABATO CITY –
For the second time in two years, the Aboitiz owned Cotabato Light and Power Company
(Cotabato Light) has turned over electrical laboratory to a government owned
public high school here Friday.

Established
through the Aboitiz Foundation, the Cotabato Light turned over its second
electrical laboratory (e.Lab) within its franchise area and the beneficiary was
Notre Dame Village National High School.

MAGUINDANAO --- Three large-scale drug traffickers were killed while 217 others were arrested in a series of police operations in five southern provinces in the past four months.Chief Superintendent Graciano Mijares of the Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said Friday 154 drug dependents in different ARMM towns also surrendered and promised to reform during the period.The ARMM covers Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur, which are both in mainland Mindanao, and the islands of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.Mijares, citing reports from the provincial police offices in the fiv