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Depression pushes woman to leap to death in Cotabato City

COTABATO CITY - Police here said depression pushed a 29-year-old Muslim woman from Barangay Lipa, Barira, Maguindanao to leap from the third floor of old Hotel Castro building along Sinsuat Avenue about noon Friday.This was the report received by Senior Supt. Victor Valencia, Cotabato City police director, on the incident.The woman, Saguira Sandap Masandag, 29 years old, a former Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW), was separated from her husband she married four months ago.Masandag was last seen by witnesses went to the old Hotel Castro building at about 10 p.m.

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Magnitude 5.2 quake hits Davao Occidental

COTABATO CITY -- A magnitude 5.2 hit Davao Occidentlprovince at about 9 p.m. Friday, the state volcanology office said tonight.The tremor, tectonic in origin, was traced 38 kilometers from Sarangani town in DAvao Occidental. It has a depth of 22 kilometers, the Philippine Institute of Volcanonolgy and Seismology (Phivolcs).Intesities recordedandIntensity III - Sarangani, Davao OccidentalIntensity II - General Santos City Glan, Sarangani

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Three respected Maranaw elders rescued from Marawi war zones

LANAO DEL SUR -- Rescuers on Thursday relocated away from conflict-torn villages in Marawi City three iconic elders known for having diligently served the Maranaw tribe when they were younger.Assemblyman Zia Alonto Adiong, an incumbent member of the Regional Assembly in the Autonomous Region in Muslim in Mindanao (ARMM), on Friday said the retired judge Pukunum Pundugar, Mama Mangoranca, who is an enginer, and Meno Manabilang, a veteran commander of the Moro National Liberation Front, are now in safe areas.Emergency workers, backed by soldiers and volunteers from various humanitarian organi

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Alleged ISIS recruiter arrested in Cotabato City

COTABATO CITY --- Authorities on Thursday arrested here a recruiter of two southern Jihadist groups identified with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.Nasser Dilangalen, 57, a construction foreman in the City Engineering Office, was immediately detained at a local police facility.He was arrested by combined personnel of the Regional Police Office-12, the military-led Joint Task Force Kutawato, the Cotabato City police office and the Army’s 5thSpecial Forces Battalion late Thursday.Local officials actively supporting Malacanang’s counter-terrorism thrust helped locate him here, according to

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Son of North Cotabato mayor jailed for shabu and unlicensed gun

NORTH COTABATO--- Investigators have filed charges against a son of the mayor in Pigcawayan, North Cotabato for possession of shabu and a .45 caliber pistol without license.Chief Inspector Realan Mamon of the Pigcawayan municipal police confirmed on Thursday that corresponding criminal cases had been filed against the 48-year-old Jid Roquero, whose father, Herminio, is incumbent mayor of Pigcawayan.Roquero was arrested on Tuesday by combined personnel of the Regional Police Office-12 and the local police force while inside the house of a certain Julio Canja in Barangay North Manuangan, Pigc

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DILG-ARMM asks LGUs for humanitarian assistance

COTABATO CITY– The Department of the Interior and Local Government of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DILG-ARMM) urged local government units (LGUs) to help alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Marawi City in any way possible.Atty.

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Duterteand Not now on Misuari's MNLF fighting with govt troops in Marawi

TACURONG CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesdy said here that his government is not yet ready to allow Moro rebels to join the military in fight against Maute and Abu SAyyaf Group in Marawi City.Talking to soldiers at the 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade headquarters in Barangay Kalandagan here, Duterte said he talked to Misuari who offered to send 2,000 MNLF fighters in Marawi City. Teka huwag muna, huwag muna, Duterte said of Misuari's proposal in the meeting. Earlier, in Cagayan de Oro City, the President said he accepted Misuari's offer.

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30 Marawi evacuees seek shelter in Kidapawan

KIDAPAWAN CITY– At least 30 evacuees from Marawi City sought temporary shelter in the city’s Poblacion, data from the city social welfare office showed.Daisy Gaviola, city’s assistant social welfare officer, said all of the seven heads of families are women, three of them solo parents and two are pregnant mothers.None of them brought to the city their husbands or partners, data showed.Gaviola said the evacuees were rescued by the Army on May 26 – four days after the Armed Forces of the Philippines begun their intense military offensives against Maute terror group in Marawi City.Also on t

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PNP, Army arrest 2 ISIS linked gunmen, seize firearms in Maguindanao

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities arrested in Datu Odin Sinsuat town two men with alleged links to fanatical jihadists and seized their high-powered guns in a raid Tuesday.Suspects Butucan Raguiab and Akmad Acob, both ethnic Maguindanaons, readily yielded when they sensed that agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, personnel of the Datu Odin Sinsuat municipal police and elements from the 603rd Infantry Brigade.Senior Supt.

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Owner of house with P52-M cash known

MARAWI CITY – Authorities today said the P52 million cash recovered by elements of the Philippine Marines were found in the house owned by couple Mariam Kousbary Batara y Dimaocor and Rollie Dimatingkal Dimaocor, both died in 2011.During clearing operations on Monday, Marines from 7th Marine Battalion Landing Team found the bundles of money from a house used by Maute group as staging area for sniping government forces in Barangay Mapandi, Marawi City.

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