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KIDAPAWAN
CITY –- More than 100 motorcycles with dubious registration
documents were impounded by the North Cotabato police provincial officer and
traffic enforcers during one-day implementation of Lambat Bitag Sasakyan
Friday.

Supt. Ma. Joyce
Birrey, North Cotabato police deputy director for operations, led law enforcers
from different municipal police office in the implementation of Oplan Lambat
Sasakyan in Barangay Poblacion, Antipas, North Cotabato.

PIGCAWAYAN,
North Cotabato – Military authorities said it foiled attempts by IS
inspired Moro gunmen to over-run communities in North Cotabato in what the Army
believed was a diversionary tactic to ease the heat of military offensives in
Maguindanao.

Major General
Arnel dela Vega, 6th Infantry Division commander, said about 30
members of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) tried to attack the
village of Malagakit here at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday night.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Catholic Church here has formed a negotiating panel that will
work for the immediate and safe release of a police officer abducted by
suspects communist rebels last month.

Bishop Jose
Colin Bagaforo, DD, bishop of the Diocese of Kidapawan, confirmed to reporters
that Senior Inspector Menardo Cui is in the hands of communist New Peoples Army
in the hinterlands of North Cotabato.

MAGUINDANAO --- Soldiers thwarted on Tuesday an attempt by members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters to intrude into a farming village in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao.Major Gen.

NORTH COTABATO ---- A wanted drug trafficker was killed while three of his henchmen were arrested in an anti-narcotics operation in Kabacan town before dawn Monday.Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Region 12 were forced to neutralize Beldik Usop when he pulled out a .38 caliber revolver when they tried to arrest him peacefully.Beldik, a resident of Barangay Poblacion in Kabacan, North Cotabato is included in PDEA-12’s list top ten most wanted drug traffickers in the municipality.His three cohorts --- Akmad Blah, Abdul Angkanan and Ali Zacaria --- yielded without resistance

COTABATO CITY
-- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) data center is currently down and unavailable, hence,
Cotabato Light will implement a manual processing of all customer related
transactions, the power firm said in its FB posts.

Cotabato Light advises paying customers to bring copies
of electric bill or have with you the 11-digit Cotabato Light Account ID when
processing the following major transactionsand

a) New service
applications

b) Customer
complaints/inquiries

COTABATO CITY -- Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman today led the formal opening of the ARMM 5S Week 2018 in front of the ARMM executive building with cabinet secretaries and other officials in attendance.The activity kicked off with a Clean-Up Day at the ARMM Compound in Cotabato City.The activity was participated in by the officials and employees of the different regional line agencies and offices.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former member of Presidential Security Group of former President Aquino in Magpet, North Cotabato.The Magpet PNP identified the victim as Ronel Galupo, 42, a former soldier who resides in RVM subdivision, Magpet.Galupo was driving his motorbike heading for home when the suspects opened fire on him, killing him on the spot at 4:30 p.m. Friday.Responding Magpet PNP recovered three empty shells for cal. 45 pistol.Motive and identities of the attackers remained unknown as of posting.Supt.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A college professor of state-run University of Southern Mindanao (USM) in Kabacan, North Cotabato died a day after he and his wife figured in a highway crash along the Kidapawan-Digos national highway.Dr.

Pamilya
at mga kaanak ng dinukot na opisyal ng PNP sa North Cotabato umapela sa grupong
may hawak rito misis raw nito namatay matapos dibdibin ang nangyari sa asawa

UMAPELA ang pamilya at mga
kaanak ng pulis na si Inspector Menard Cui, deputy chief of police ng President
Roxas, Cotabato, na palayain na ito ng grupong may hawak sa kanya upang
makapiling – kahit sa huling sandali, ang asawa niya na bago lamang pumanaw
dahil sa sakit na kanser.