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CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao -- The military here said civilians have voluntarily helping the military in the fight against ISIS inspired armed group in Maguindanao.A proof of this, according to Lt. Colonel Gerry Besana, chief of the 6th Infantry Divisions Civil Military Operations (CMO) Battalion, was the surrender of civilians of un-exploded ordnance they found in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao where the military and its allies, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had been fighting Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) Esmael Abdulmalik faction.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Prove your innocence in proper forum. You have to face the charges against you and you will have your day in court. These were the words of Sen. Manny Pacquiao that apparently convinced Mayor Aniceto Jojo Lopez of Maasim, Sarangani after he escaped when government forces raided his home Friday dawn.In the raid, according to PDEA, government agents seized more than P5 million worth of shabu, explosies, suspected ecstasy, guns and shabu laboratory equipment. But Lopez left before the lawmen arrived in what PDEA officials believe he got a tip about the operation.

CARMEN, North Cotabato -- Unidentified men set off bombs in one of the steel towers of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in a remote village here, sending parts of North Cotabato, Cotabato City and Maguindanao in total power blackout beginning at about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, he NGCP said.Arlene Hepiga,
speaking for Cotabato Light, said NGCP power supply from Tacurong City
energized Cotabato City and is franchise area at 6:11 a.m.

Due to limited
supply, Cotabato Light implemented rotational brownout to its concessionaires
at 8 a.m.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- A 16-year-old girl was found dead in a vacant lot in Antipas, North Cotabato while a 30-year old male was found by authorities in a river in Banga, South Cotabato, authorities said Monday.Reprots from the village in Antipas said the victim has committed suicide but police did not buy the idea since the girl, a senior high school student, had contusions and injuries.The girl was not identified in the police reports.Her relatives have asked the police to conduct deeper probe to determine whether or not there was a foul play.In Banga, police recovered the remains of still un

COTABATO CITY - A mild quake rocked Cotabato City but most city residents did not feel it.Per Phivolcs bulletin, the quake was tectonic in origin and was traced 66 km southwest of the city.No reported casualty or damages to property.

MANILA-- The number of Maute group terrorists in the ongoing clearing operations in Marawi City has now climbed to 749.According to Joint Task Force Ranao deputy commander Col. Romeo Brawner, figures are as of 6 a.m. Saturday showed an increase of 13 from Friday's data.Civilians killed and executed by the lawless elements are still at 47 while rescued residents are at 1,733.Recovered firearms are now at 714 while number of slain government troops are now at 155 or two higher than Friday's figures.

KORONADAL CITY - Another fire hits Koronadal City, the second in two days and damaged a boarding house occupied by two families in Barangay Gen. Paulino Santos.The conflagration erupted at past 3 a.m. in the boarding house owned by Romeo Terso, 57.Terso told arson investigators the fire flared up at the room of Jade delos Santos, a pedicab driver. When the fire started, delos Santos rushed his family outside the boarding house made of light materials thus he failed to save other valuables.Delos Santos sustained third degree burns in various parts of his body.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Authorities on Friday have filed murder and frustrated murder charges against a policeman who killed another policeman after they engaged in a heated argument in M’lang, North Cotabato.Inspector Jorlito Patrona, deputy chief of M’lang Police, identified those charged as Police Officer 1 Vergil Rivera, member of the Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) in Region 11 based in Davao del Norte, and two of his cohorts identified as Private Jomar Rivera and Police Officer 1 Marlon Jongco.Police considered as ‘accessories to the crime’ PO1 Jongco and Private Rivera, younger bro

KIDAPAWAN
CITY – Police and jail officials here have launched
province-wide manhunt against two detainees who bolted jail Friday morning from
the North Coabato District Jail (NCDJ) in Barangay Amas here, a jail official said.

Jail Senior
Inspector Lucky Mer Latuela, deputy jail warden of NCDJ, identified the two
escapees as Johnny Elip who was facing rape charges and Ruben Jordan facing charges
of carnapping with frustrated homicide.

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – Police nd military forces here are hunting
down two men riding tandem on a motorbike for killing a village chairperson
here Thursday.

Supt. Gilbert
Tuzon, Midsayap town police chief, said several witnesses have come forward to
provide police investigators with information that could help solve the puzzle.

He identified
the victim as Chairperson Mama Duluan, 52, of Barangay Tumbras, a village
bordering Maguindanao and North Cotabato.