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PIKIT, North
Cotabato – An ex-police officer wanted for his alleged involvement in
the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was injured in a shootout with lawmen out to
arrest him Tuesday, police here said today.

Chief
Inspector Donald Cabigas, Pikit town police chief, said the local police were
to serve arrest warrant issued by Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes of RTC-221 in
Quezon City against former PO1 Jonathan Engid when he resisted and opened fire
on approaching lawmen.

DATU ABDULLAH SANGKI, Maguindanao -- Unidentified armed men on board a motorbike tried, but failed, to assassinate a village chairperson who sits as town councilor Monday, police said.Senior Supt. Agustin Tello, Maguindanao police provincial director, said the victim, Councilor Edris Dading Sangki, 45, chairperson of Barangay Kaya-Kaya here was driving his Isuzu trooper with his 13-year-old son en route to Ampatuan town when two men on a motorbike opened fire at about 7 a.m.The gunmen, armed with cal.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police authorities in M’lang town in North Cotabato today filed murder charges against a certain Jerson Pakhat after he voluntarily yielded and admitted killing on Monday a police intelligence officer.Superintendent Peter John Calinga, chief of the M’lang PNP, said Pakhat surrendered to M’lang Mayor Russel Abonado, around 2 p.m., on Monday.Immediately, Calinga and his men picked the suspect and transported him back to the police station where he was placed under their custody while charges are being prepared against him.Pakhat told Calinga that he killed Police Officer 3

COTABATO CITY – Just like in major cities,
the transport sector here has sympathized with their colleagues but only after
transporting students and office workers.

And the jeepney drivers made its protest so simple
it only lasted less than five minutes.

We just gathered here at 9 a.m. at the city plaza
for about five minutes and pause for a while to sympathize with our co-drivers
nationwide, then we resume our operation, Absalom Sandig, public utility vehicledriver, said.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Two gunmen on board a motorcycle shot dead an intelligence officer in M’lang town inNorth Cotabato, a town official said.M’lang disaster risk and management officer Constantino Diazon identified the victim as Police Officer 3 Lovel Tan, assigned at the intelligence unit of the M’lang PNP.Tan, according to Diazon, was sipping his cup of coffee at about 8 a.m.

MANILA - Local government employees will have to straighten up and get their acts together as the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and local government units (LGUs) will strictly monitor observance of government hours, particularly cases of habitual absenteeism and tardiness and loafing from duty during regular office hours.In a directive, DILG Secretary Ismael ‘Mike’ D. Sueno rallied all local chief executives (LCEs) to monitor strict compliance of all public officers and employees within their respective jurisdictions. The government catalyzes change.

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities arrested on Friday in Shariff Aguak town two bandits involved in the January 25, 2015 hostilities in Mamasapano town that left 44 police commandos and several others dead.Lakiman Dawaling and Mustapha Tatak, both members of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, were nabbed by combined personnel of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group and the provincial police office Friday morning in the town proper of Shariff Aguak.Dawaling, Tatak and companions attacked a team from the police’s Special Action Force while retreating from Barangay Pidsandawa

DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao – The Office of Civil Defense in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao(OCD-ARMM) has provided technical support during the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (DRRM) Capacity Needs Assessment (CNA) Tools Development of Mindanao State University starting this mornign at the university’s training center.The training will last until Feb. 26, according to OCD-ARMM Regional Director Myrna Angot.Dr. Bai Soraya Q. Sinsuat, MSU Maguindanao Chancellor, expressed her support to theDRRM programs of the school, government agencies and non-government organizations.

NORTH COTABATO --- Three militiamen and two soldiers were badly injured in a vehicular crash at the border of North Cotabato’s adjoining Arakan and President Roxas towns late Thursday.They were on their way to their camp from a secluded area when their vehicle flipped and rolled over after one of its front tires blew out while cruising through a stretch of a national highway in Barangay Ilustre in President Roxas.The injured members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit, Ric Gomez, Ronnie Librando and Delio Dangin, and two soldiers, Privates 1stClass Lord John Singson and Rocky

ZAMBOANGA CITY -- Another sea jacking attempt by suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Tawi-Tawi thwarted when patrolling navy ships responded on the distress call from MV Dong Hae Star AT 10 a.m. onWednesday.MV Dong Hae Star, a Panamanian flag ship transiting the Sulu Sea from China to Indonesia, reported to Littoral Monitoring Station (LMS) Bongao that suspicious black speedboats with 5 persons each on board was pursuingthem in sea waters off Pearl Bank.