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PDEA, PNP, ARMY arrest Maguindanao town councilor in anti-drug raid

DATU ANGGAL, Maguindanao – Joint anti-narcotics agents, police and military forces arrested Friday afternoon a town councilor in Maguindanao during an anti-drug operation here. Bryan Babang, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM), said government forces were to serve search warrants against suspected drug pushers Zainudin Musa, Bukatol Maliga alias Castro and Katidia Paglas, all residents of Sitio Kitib, Barangay Mapayag, Datu Anggal Midtimbang town.

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Boy, 16 hurt in Midsayap IED blast

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – A 16-year-old pedicab driver was injured when an
improvised explosive device went off at a roadside here before dawn Saturday.

Supt. Bernard
Tayong, Midsayap town police chief, said the explosion occurred at 4:30 a.m.
while the victim, a resident of Barangay Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato, was
sitting on his pedicab looking for passengers along Quezon Avenue.

No one has
claimed responsibility for the bomb attack. The victim was rushed to the
hospital by responding cops.

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2 soldiers hurt in another Maguindanao bombing

SHARIFF AGUAK,
Maguindanao – Two soldiers were slightly injured when suspected
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) set off a roadside bomb in the
borders of two Maguindanao towns early Friday morning, the Army said.

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A day after its 48th anniv, NPAs torch banana cargo trucks in Gen. Santos City

GENERAL SANTOS
CITY – A day after communist rebels commemorated its 48th foundation
anniversary, about 50 New Peoples Army (NPAs) rebels torched a banana
plantation classifying plant here Thursday.

This despite high
alert status implemented by Police Regional Office 12.
Supt. Romeo
Galgo Jr, spokesperson of PNP-12, said the rebels came in hordes from three
different locations in Sitio PaoPao, Barangay Sinawal on board motorbikes,
trucks and jeeps.

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Comelec releases calendar of activities for barangay, SK polls

MANILA (PNA) -- Despite plans to postpone the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has released the calendar of activities for the said polls.Based on Comelec Resolution No.

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PDEA, cops arrest 21, seize P1-M worth of drugs, carnapped bikes in Kabacan

KABACAN, North
Cotabato -- Joint elements of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-12),
military and PNP today nabbed 21 persons and seized illegal drugs during
anti-illegal drug raid in Purok Krislam, Barangay Poblacion here.

Senior Insp. Ronnie
Cordero, Kabacan town police chief, said the joint team served nine search
warrants and was able to arrest their all those named in the warrants.

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Maguindanao roadside bombing blamed on BIFF `robbery gang'

MAGUINDANAO --- A soldier was hurt in a bombing Thursday in Datu Hoffer town, an attack authorities blamed on cohorts of motorcycle thieves killed by policemen in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat the day before.Senior Superintendent Agustin Tello, Maguindanao’s provincial police director, identified the injured soldier as Corporal Michael Madazza of the Army’s 38thInfantry Battalion, a component unit of the 6thInfantry Division.Madazza and his companions were on board a military KM 150 light truck passing by a stretch of the Cotabato-Isulan Highway in Barangay Labo-Labo in Datu Hofer, Maguindanao whe

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PNP Sulu arrest most wanted man, seize high powered guns

CAMP SK
PENDATUN, Maguindanao – Police and military authorities on Wednesday arrested five
persons wanted for murders and illegal possession of firearms and explosives.

But Chief Supt.
Reuben Sindac, police director for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
(ARMM) said the suspects resisted arrest and engaged law enforcers in a
shootout Wednesday dawn.

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2 suspected carnappers die in shootout with Isulan cops

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat--Two suspected carnappers were killed in a shootout with lawmen in a remote village here minutesafter they allegedly carnapped motorbike Wednesday morning, police said.Senior Supt. Raul Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police director, said the two suspects, who remained unidentified as of posting, earlier carnapped at gunpoint theKawasaki motorbike of Florencio Vivencio Jr in Barangay Dansuli, Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.Responding policemen chased the suspects who fled toward Barangay Kenram.

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PDEA agents nab couple for operating drug den in Cotabato City

COTABATO CITY -- Anti-narcotics agents on Tuesday arrested a couple operating here a drug den minors in the neighborhood patronized.Spouses Rogelio Bolo and Leilah Legita-Bolo were caught in the act of selling methamphetamine hydrochloride (shabu) to an agent of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEA-ARMM) in a dragnet staged at past 6and00 p.m.

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