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MANILA -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced it has foiled a possible bombing attack by Maute Group terrorists in Cagayan De Oro City with the arrest of two perpetrators and recovery of several explosive-making materials Wednesday.AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said that among those arrested was Monaliza Solaiman Romato, also known as Monay , niece and reportedly the replacement of Maute matriarch and finance head Ominta Farhana Romato Maute who was arrested last month.Romato was arrested with Tahera Taher during the 4:30 a.m.

COTABATO CITY – Two cops from Mandaluyong City caught on video maltreating two men
at gunpoint and hitting them with a stick are now in Marawi City to face the
Maute terrorist group.

Chief Supt.
Reuben Sindac, police regional director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM), officially turned over today Police Officers 1 Jose Tandog and Chito
Enriquez to Senior Supt. John Guyguyon, Lanao del Sur acting police director
for deployment to Marawi City.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The Philippine flag in a public school in a remote village in Makilala town in North Cotabato was placed in half-mast since Monday after unidentified armed men torched one of its classrooms, a barangay official said.Chairman Melvin Fortajada of Barangay Malasila in Makilala said the flag would be placed in half-mast until Wednesday as sign of the protest of the teaching personnel and the parents to what the armed group did to their school.On Sunday, around 345 p.m., the suspects razed the classroom of Grade One of the Balawan Elementary School at Sitio Balawan, Barangay Ba

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead a 42-year old mother and wounded her 20-year old son inside the public market of Matalam in North Cotabato, on Monday.Senior Inspector Sunny Leoncito, chief of the Matalam police, identified the slain victim as Divina Sumlay, 42, and a resident of Purok Krislam, Poblacion.The victim’s son, identified as Benden, was seriously hurt after he was hit on his back.Leoncito, in a radio interview, said Divina was selling fish inside the public market when a gunman pumped bullets into her head and chest.Her son was hit by a stray bullet, the police off

MAGUINDANAO --- A powerful roadside bomb exploded along a highway in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao at past 8and00 a.m. Tuesday, scaring villagers in houses nearby.Senior Supt. Agustin Tello, director of the Maguindanao police, said the bomb that went off at one side of the Cotabato-Isulan Highway in Barangay Kauran in Ampatuan was to be detonated from a distance using a mobile phone while a police or a military vehicle is passing by, but exploded prematurely.

KORONADAL CITY –- Police Chief Supt. Cedrick Train, police regional
director for Region 12, has reminded new police officers who will serve in
various police offices across Region 12 of their duties as responsibilities as
protector of the people, a police spokesperson today said.
Your
PNP badge symbolizes legal authority and responsibility that is to uphold the
law with fairness and justice, Chief Supt. Train told 489 newly graduated
police officers during the oath taking and graduation and badge of honor

GEN. SANTOS CITY – Retirement from boxing is an option but not a priority for now for Senator Manny Pacquiao, it seems. Smile was the reply of Pambansang Kamao when reporters tried to ask him at Gen. Santos City International Airport if he considers retirement from the sport that made him famous after his sorry defeat from the hands of Australian Jeff Horn Sunday.Pacquiao’s chartered Air Asia jet landed here at about 2 p.m. where a police-military honor welcomed him. The visibly tired boxer kept smiling while talking briefly to welcoming delegations, led by Gen.

SARANGANI --- Authorities arrested a senior member of the militant Ansa’r Al-Khilafa Philippines (AKP) in a drug sting Sunday in Maasim town in Sarangani.Morsalen Concepcion Mashod, a henchman of the slain AKP founder Maguid Jaafar, fell in an entrapment laid by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and the Police Regional Office-12.Gil Cesario Castro, PDEA’s director for Region 12, said on Monday that vigilant local officials and barangay folk helped them locate Mashod in Barangay Kanalo in the seaside Maasim town.The operation that resulted in Mashod’s arrest was assisted by the Military

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Unidentified gunmen riding on a motorcycle shot dead on Sunday a couple who was believed engaged in money lending business in Kabacan, North Cotabato.Chief Inspector Bryan Placer, chief of Kabacan PNP, identified the victims as Earl John Dulay Nimer and wife, Norhaina, both residents of Barangay Osias, Kabacan.Senior Inspector Maxim Peralta, investigator-on-case, said the couple was onboard an orange Honda Wave motorcycle with license plate number MC 92435 when the gunmen, also onboard another motorcycle, pumped bullets into their bodies, along Sitio Lumayong in Barangay K

MANILA -- Despite his loss, he fought a good fight, Senators said of colleague boxer-senator Manny Pacquiao who lost his WBO (World Boxing Organization) welterweight world title to Australian boxer Jeff Horn in a unanimous decision on Sunday afternoon. Taas-noo lang (Hold your head up), Sen. Manny. You fought a good fight. Win or lose, Filipinos will always be proud of you, of what you have done for sports and the whole country, Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara said in a statement. In victory and in defeat, we have celebrated and cried with you. We are proud of you, Sen. Pacquiao! he added.Sen.