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BANISILAN, North Cotabato – Eight persons
were injured in a grenade throwing incident at the town plaza here at the
height of the culminating program for the town’s 36th foundation
anniversary Wednesday night.

Most of the victims were followers and relatives of
Sanny Khadil, chairperson of Barangay Tinimbacan, Banisilan, according to Senior
Inspector Wilson Mangcay, town police chief.

COTABATO CITY –-
Police here neutralized Wednesday night the Top 3 most wanted person in the
city after he resisted arrest during the serving of search warrant in the outskirt
village of Kalanganan.

Senior Supt.
Rolly Octavio, Cotabato City police director, identified the wanted person as
Taingan Waris of Barangay Kalanganan 2, Cotabato City.Waris has been
facing multiple murder and frustrated multiple murder charges, according to
Octavio.

KORONADAL CITY – Pormal na nagsampa ng kasong Physical Injury, Grave Threat at Grave Oral Defemation ang guwardiya ng McGrille Resto Bar labansa isang miyembro ng Scene of the Crime Operative (SOCO) South Cotabato at kasama nito matapos siyang suntukin noong nakaraang huwebes ng gabi ngPebrero 1.Kinilala ang nasabing pulis na si PO3 Edmund O.Delos Reyes, miyembro ng SOCO South Cotabto (ang may bilog na guhit sa larawan) na makikitang sinugod at sinuntok ang nasabing gwardiya at dalawang miyembro ng Highway Patrol Group na sina Joven Sumugod at Reymart Lustro.Sa Press Conference,pormal na in

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- A provincial lawmaker is drafting a resolution urging inter-agency support in restoring order in a state college whose president the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is now searching for.North Cotatabo provincial board member Socrates Piñol said Wednesday he was to sponsor a resolution during their session Tuesday urging Malacañang to intervene on the problem, but balked when President Rodrigo Duterte named a caretaker for the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology the day before.

ALEOSAN, North
Cotabato -- Police here have launched a manhunt against two men
who tossed a hand grenade along the national highway here Sunday night that
injured a woman.

We are pursuing
a lead, hopefully it will result to the identification, arrest and prosecution
of the suspects, Senior Inspector Edwin Abantes, Aleosan town police chief,
said Monday.

He identified
the victim as Arlen Tamanal, resident of Barangay Pagangan, Aleosan.

PRES. QUIRINO,
Sultan Kudarat – An elected local official in Sultan Kudarat has been
supporting the communist New Peoples’ Army (NPA), an Army official said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, the chief of 33rd Infantry Battalion based here,
said three of the eight NPAs who surrendered to his unit on Friday in
Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat had confessed about the local official’s role in the
movement.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- The lawyer of a state college president from whose house agents found shabu Monday urged authorities not to arrest his client without court permission.In a report Saturday, Catholic station dxND here said Israelito Torreon, counsel of Samson Molao, also questioned the veracity of his client’s having allegedly operated a drug den in the campus of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology.The state-owned school, most known as CFCST, is operating in the upland Arakan town in the third district of North Cotabato.Torreon has emphasized that there is no warrant

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The legislative council here has put on hold proposals to give a wounded Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) member commendations for his valor and heroism.Kidapawan City councilor Jivy Roe Bombeo, author of the proposals, said the council has yet to dig deeper the incident that involved Police Officer 3 Erick John Yamuta, SWAT member who was critically wounded after he engaged in a shootout with a group of armed men on January 27.The proposals were referred to Councilor Francis Palmones, chair of the Committee on Peace and Order and Councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison, chair of t

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Cotabato state-run college president Dr. Sam Molao is ready to face ‘serious’ charges filed against him, including alleged operation of a drug den inside the school and possession of illegal firearms, his lawyer said.Molao was not in his staff house when anti-narcotics agents conducted the raid on Monday.

BAGUMBAYAN,
Sultan Kudarat – Eight more communist rebels in Sultan Kudarat
have decided to return to the folds of the law Friday, an Army colonel today
said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, commander of 33rd Infantry Battalion, said the
rebels decided to come down after getting exhausted in the military’s
relentless pursuit operations against New Peoples’ Army (NPA).

Cabunoc said
to date, a total of 111 rebels have surrendered to the 33rd IB.