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4 lives lost in separate highway crashes in North, South Cotabato

COTABATO CITY - Two freak highway crashes killed four persons, including a village councilman,in North Cotabato and South Cotabato on Friday, reports reaching and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph today said.The highway crash in Tupi, South Cotabato came when a motorcycle hit a parked dump truck that broke down along a highway in Barangay Poblacion while in Makilala, North Cotabato, a truck driver lost control of his vehicle due to mechanical trouble and hit a motorcycle in front.In the Makilala i

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Sayadiand Drug free city is crime free

COTABATO CITY -- Thousands of Cotabatenios from various sectors joined this morning's ‘Run for Drug Free Cotabato City.’The activity, initiated by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and Cotabato City MayorFrancesCynthia Guiani-Sayadi, was supported by the different sectors like the law enforcement, academe, women, youth, and the private. Maii Satol Ibrahim, city information chief, said the fun run was aimed to promote health and wellness among Cotabateños, aside from its call to end the use of illegal drugs in the city.

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NPA confiscate 15 guns of retired cop in Kidapawan raid

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- Rebels have claimed responsibility for Thursday’s seizure here of 15 firearms from a former barangay chairman by guerillas disguised as personnel of the National Bureau of Investigation.The New People’s Army on Friday told reporters via email that guerillas carrying copied NBI identification cards were behind the attack on the house here of Reinando Denampo.Denampo is a former chairman of Barangay Tagbak in Magpet town in North Cotabato.Probers have confirmed that Denampo lost four 5.56 caliber Bushmaster assault rifles, two 7.62 caliber M14 rifles, an M-203 rifle fitted

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Three dead in freak North Cotabato motorcycle crash

NORTH COTABATO --- Three Moro men riding a motorcycle together instantly got killed in a strange accident Thursday in Pigcawayan town in North Cotabato.The fatalities, Mokalidin Salem and his cousin, Adil Salem and companion Ali Arbah were on a motorcycle that tumbled thrice after its front tire hit a fragment of broken stone with jagged edges and exploded.

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Cotabato City educator is one of Ten Most Inspiring Teachers in the Philippines

Cotabato City’s Gomer Carcueva was
recognized recently at one of the Ten Most Inspiring Teachers in the
Philippines.

Carcueva was among 38 nominees for the
award from different places in the country from which 10 were chosen.

Carcueva said the other nominees came
from Manila, Pangasinan, Masbate, Negros Oriental, Dumaguete, Cebu and Bohol.
He was the only nominee from Mindanao.

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Controversial cops from Metro Manila rescue Basilan flood victims

COTABATO CITY -- The misfits in the Philippine National Police President Rodrigo Duterte deployed last month in Basilan are bouncing back, struggling to prove they are worthy of a second chance.The mayor of Lamitan City, Rose Furigay, said on Wednesday her constituents are thankful to some of them for helping rescue hundreds whose villages were hit by devastating flashfloods last week.There are 110 of them now in Basilan, discharging peacekeeping duties under the provincial police office.Furigay said rampaging floodwaters spawned by three days of incessant rains swept through 11 baran

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Lady CHED-12 records officer shot dead in Koronadal City

KORONADAL CITY -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead alady records officer of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED-12) while she was walking toward the SOCCSKSARGEN regional center here Tuesday morning.Supt. Barney Condes, Koronadal City police director, identified the victim asJennifer Oñas, 43, a resident of Gen. Santos City.Condes said initial investigation showedOñas had just arrived from Gen. Santos City at about 7:15 a.m.

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NPAs torch Yellow Bus unit in North Cotabato

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Suspected New People’s Army rebelson Mondaytorched a passenger bus in Makilala, North Cotabato, police said.The burning came five days after communist New Peoples Army ambushed and killed four police officers in nearby Bansalan, Davao del Sur.Supt.

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ARMM builds large gymnasium in Basilan school campus

ISABELA CITY --- There is a new gymnasium now in the city designed for 10,000 occupants which officials intend to use for activities meant to foster solidarity among local Muslim and Christian communities.Isal Ibrahim, acting principal of the Basilan National High School (BNHS) here, on Saturday said the gymnasium was inaugurated on Monday.
The new facility inside the BNHS campus was constructed using a P10 million allocation from the executive department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

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Man hacks OFW-wife over missing money, commits suicide

DATU ODIN SINSUAT,
Maguindanao -- An overseas Filipino worker, who just returned home and
found the money she sent to her husband was unaccounted for, was hacked by her
spouse in Maguindanao Friday, police said today.

Chief Inspector Achmad
Alibonga, police chief of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, said Landy Gunsi
Paulino, 31, attacked his wife, Leni, with a machete after she confronted her about
the money she sent for the construction of the family’s home in Sitio Green
Hills, Barangay Awang here.

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