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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.

BANGA, South Cotabato - A volunteer fire brigade here will represent the SOCCSKSARGEN region in this year's 3rd National Fire Olympics in Quezon City.Fire Chief Inspector Milo Manlabao, Banga fire chief, said the group will compete in the March 24 national contest to be held at Quezon City Memorial Circle in celebration of fire prevention month.Manlabao said the volunteer fire fighters, composed of about 15 well trained and skilled workers, are determined to bring home the bacon.

MAGUINDANAO --- The police has started organizing teams of scouts on motorcycles to beef up its anti-narcotics and counter-terrorism efforts in five security-challenged southern provinces.The Police Regional Office-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-ARMM) trained from March 6 to 9 a pioneer batch of 76 officers on motorcycle patrol and tactical riding maneuvers to boost its domestic security initiatives. That was just an initial activity intended to complement our peacekeeping functions.

Interior and Local Government Secretary Ismael ‘Mike’ D. Sueno warns the public that the use of illegal electrical connections or ‘jumpers’ may cost them their lives and properties. Don’t use jumpers. That is electricity theft. But more than that, this will cause electricity overloading which is a frequent cause of fire, said Sueno. If you think you are getting away with not paying electricity because of jumpers, think again.

DAVAO DEL SUR - President Rodrigo Duterte gave the green light for the police and the military to use its might and destroy the communist New Peoples Army.Duterte visited the wake of police officerskilled in an ambush in Bansalan town, Davao del Sur.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- Authorities will soon start imposing in North Cotabato province an ordinance subjecting drivers to random drug testing along highways, something first in Mindanao.The provincial ordinance No. 2017-003, authored by Socrates Piñol, was unanimously approved this week by the North Cotabato Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), chaired by Vice Gov.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Authorities shot dead a wanted drug lord and his wife in an encounter Tuesday in Maguing town in Lanao del Sur.Senior Supt.

COTABATO
CITY –- Unidentified gunmen shot and injured the municipal assessor
of a town in Maguindanao after he was shot along a busy street here Tuesday
afternoon.

Usop
Zacaria, municipal assessor of Kabuntalan town was alone in his vehicle at 5
p.m. when two men riding tandem on a motorbike parked beside his car that
paused due to traffic.

Five
shots were fired by the suspects, according to Cotabato City police director
Senior Supt. Victor Valencia.

DAVAO CITY -- A magnitude 5.9 quake hit San Francisco, Surigao del Norte Sunday morning in what volcanologists described as an aftershock of the February 10 Magnitude 6.7 quake that hit the same province.In a bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the earthquake struck at 8:08 a.m.

TANTANGAN,
South Cotabato – A remote village here is now the apple of the eye of local
tourists, including curious locals to personally witness a water source that
also emits fire.

After the
phenomenon was posted on social media, people kept coming to Barangay New
Cuyapo here, according to Roger Quijano, caretaker of a domestic waste source.

Ahhs and
Ohhs filled the air when visitors arrived and witnesses the mystery.