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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.

LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato -- It's not over until its over for a farmer New Year reveler from a remote village here who lost two fingers when a powerful 5-star firecracker went off in his hands Tuesday afternoon.Romeo Lumbay, 48, of Barangay Tasiman, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato unconsciously added up to the rising number of firecracker blast victims in South Cotabato.Lumbay told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida he found a left-over firecracker from previous day's New Year revelry and decided to set it off at past 4 p.m.Unfortunately, his hands were sticky as he had just taken suman.

COTABATO CITY – For the second consecutive year,
this city recorded zero firecracker related injuries during the Christmas and
New Year revelry, officials today said.

Indeed, it is a happy New Year in Cotabato City,
Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi said of the successful campaign to make the city
free from firecracker related injuries and free from stray bullet injuries.

COTABATO CITY – Twenty two persons have been injured by firecrackers in Region 12, four
of them hurt during the New Year’s Eve revelry, a health official today said.

As of 6 a.m.
today, a total of 22 persons have been hurt in four province, five cities
region known as SOCCSKSARGEN region.

Jenny Ventura,
focal person of DOH Iwas Paputok campaign, said the figure is 12 percent
lower as compared to the same period last year.

Monitoring
started on Dec. 21 and will last until Jan. 4.

NORTH COTABATO --- A villager was injured in an explosion that ripped through a residential area in Pikit town in North Cotabato before dawn Friday.Esmael Guialel, who sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of his body, was rushed to a hospital by responding barangay officials and personnel of the Pikit municipal police.Investigators said a man on a motorcycle hurled a fragmentation grenade at the house of Guialel in the town proper of Pikit and sped away as the explosive went off.Superintendent Bernard Tayong, spokesman of the North Cotabato provincial police office, said probers are

MAGUINDANAO - Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters snatched six men in Datu Hoffer town Wednesday but four of them managed to escape, authorities said Thursday.The six men --- Kannie, Mael and Elvin, all surnamed Minggil, Uzik Labina, Kew Mintos and Kong Mentos --- were flagged down by BIFF gunmen Wednesday while on their way to their farms in Barangay Limpongo, Datu Hoffer and herded away at gunpoint.They were snatched just as another BIFF group killed a Teduray farmer, Diego Met Dagadas, in a nearby barangay.Moro and Teduray community elders told the police Labina and the Mi