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NORTH COTABATO ---- A grenade blast ripped through the residential yard of a merchant-couple in Pikit town in North Cotabato Sunday night, causing panic among local residents.
Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-12, said the spouses Hayder and Samra Manibpal are both still clueless on who could have perpetrated the bombing.
No one was hurt in the attack but the incident caused panic among villagers in Barangay Inug-ug in Pikit where the house of the Manibpals is located.

COTABATO CITY --- Authorities have cordoned to ward off saboteurs the venues of two important events this week both with big relevance to the Mindanao peace process.Hundreds of elected officials, local and foreign dignitaries, leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission are expected to attend what could possibly be the last commemoration here on Monday of the 28thfounding anniversary of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.The event shall be capped off with the state of the region address of ARMM Gov.

COTABATO CITY --- The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will commemorate on Monday ARMM’s 28thfounding anniversary, the last if Congress will approve its proposed replacement with a Bangsamoro entity.ARMM officials told this news outfit on Saturday that this year’s celebration of the region’s anniversary shall be simple in deference to the plight of victims of the five-month conflict in Marawi City.The region’s chief executive, Mujiv Hataman, now in his second term as elected ARMM regional governor, said on Saturday their modest founding anniversary feast for ARMM shall be capped off wit

NORTH COTABATO --- The police has cracked the whip on criminals in Pikit town where gunmen killed in the past eight weeks more than 10 people, two of them foreigners.Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzalez, spokesman of the Police Regional Office-12, said on Friday that municipal police personnel have impounded in the past two weeks 148 motorcycles without documents in operations meant to restrain movements of criminals in the municipality.The spate of shooting incidents in Pikit town, which began as a strategic fort of the Spaniards and, subsequently, the Japanese during World War II, has prompted

The Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light and Power Company
(Cotabato Light) and the local government of Cotabato formed a project that
will help prevent fire, electric pilferage and to make village officials as
trained and certified electricians.

If successful, the project could become a model in
the entire country, Anna Lea Lee Nataño, Cotabato Light Human Resources and
Reputation Enhancement Head, said of the project dubbed as Tatsulok.

SHARIFF AGUAK,
Maguindanao - More than 250 families or about 1,200 persons have been displaced
by on-going military offensive against ISIS inspired group here.

The displaced
families, mostly from Barangay Bagong, are now staying in two villages,
according to Farouk Romancap, municipal social welfare officer.

He said 91
families are now housed at Madrasa in Barangay Satan and 166 others in a tent
in Barangay Kuloy.

KALAMANSIG, Sultan Kudarat - Police arrested here Wednesday dawn a wanted person and the recovery of a hand grenade, police said.Senior Supt.

MAGUINDANAO -- More than 200 new police officers donated blood on Wednesday in honor of their colleagues killed and injured during the five-month conflict in Marawi City.The bloodletting activity of the Maguindanao provincial police was also to reaffirm the dedication of the rookies to community service after their symbolic swearing to work for state with an initial Police Officer 1 rank.Senior Superintendent Agustin Tello of the Maguindanao provincial police on Wednesday said all of their neophyte personnel currently undergoing initial field orientation in 36 municipal police offices in th

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao – The combined forces of 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and Region 12 apprehended yesterday a couple and 5 individuals for violating the Republic Act 9165 or Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.The suspect, identified as Albije Biang, netted with his wife and 5 others at Purok Rang-ay, Brgy Poblacion, Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat at around 10 o’clock in the morning.

MAGUINDANAO --- Two Army battalions launched before dawn Wednesday an extensive hunt for three notorious commanders of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.