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COTABATO CITY --- Four persons nearly died of prolonged Freon refrigerant inhalation due to a defective car air-conditioner in a peculiar incident Monday in Montawal town in Maguindanao.

The spouses Jayson and Vanessa Escaner and their companions, Mary Jane Barcenilla and Juanito Tolmia, were found unconscious inside a red Toyota Vios car, bearing license plates POH 407, along a stretch of a highway in Barangay Tunggol, Montawal.

Investigators found that Escaner, who was driving the car, managed to pull over while he and his companions fainted one after another.

COTABATO CITY - KABILANG sa kasong kakaharapin ng suspek na si S/Sgt Rosendo Evangelista ay ang illegal recruitment, Absent Without Leave o AWOL case at administrative case.

Ayon kay 6ID spokesperson Lt. Col John Paul Baldomar, humingi umano ng pera na umaabot sa P93,000 ang suspek kapalit ng pangakong tutulungan nitong makapasok agad sa Armed Forces of The Philippies o AFP ang biktima.

Kinilala naman ang biktima nasi John Lloyd Escobar na taga Barangay Glad, Midsayap, North Cotabato.

Naka-half mast ngayon ang bandila sa Tacurong City Hall.

Ayon kay Tacurong Information Officer Allan Freno ito ay bilang pagadadalamhati na rin ng LGU sa pagpanaw ni City Councilor Maximo Casador Jr. kahapon ng madaling araw.

Nilinaw naman ni Freno na bagama’t nagpositibo sa COVID-19 ang antigen test ng sumakabilang buhay na city councilor wala pang kumpirmasyon ang RT-PCR test nito.

Gayunpaman ayon kay Freno nagdesisyon ang pamilya ng pumanaw na city councilor na ipa-cremate ang mga labi nito.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light announces today the scheduled power service interruption affecting residential areas along the Corner Tamontaka-Bubong Road to Cotabato Grand Mosque on September 30, 2021.

Ang interuption ay magsisimula alas 8 ng umaga hanggang alas 12ng tanghali upang i-facilitate ang primary line maintenance works in the area.

COTABATO CITY - Four persons, identities withheld, were found unconscious inside a parked car near the Tunggol National High School in Datu Montawal, Maguindanao Monday afternoon.

Netizen Naz Buisan posted on his FB page the images of the red Toyota sedan parked beside the highway with four persons on board, two males and two females appeared to be sleeping.

The car (POH-407) is registed in the name of Mae Alcazid of Davao City.

Buisan said he posted the images in his FB page to call the attention of anyone who knew the persons through the car's license plate. 

COTABATO CITY  – The Church-run university here announced it was granted certificate of authority to hold limited face to face classes in its Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.

On Monday, Fr. Francis Zabala of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI), president of Notre Dame University, said in a statement that the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) in the Soccsksargen region and the Bangsamoro Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) have separately granted NDU a certificate of authority.

COTABATO CITY ---- Anti-narcotics agents shot dead a trafficker who refused to yield after selling P320,000 worth of shabu to a team tasked to entrap him Sunday in Bongao town in Tawi-Tawi.

Umda Abain Karimuddin died on the spot in the shootout that he provoked when he pulled out a rifle as personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao tried to arrest him after turning over his illegal merchandise to non-uniformed agents during a tradeoff past 7:00 a.m. Sunday in Barangay Mandulan, Bongao.

COTABATO CITY  - Dean on arrival sa pagamutan ang isang ginang na sakay ng ambulansya sa nangyaring aksidente sa Barangay Taviran, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao nitong Sabado.

Kinilala ang biktima na si Baimasla Adam, 22 years old at residente ng Barangay Sapalan ng nasabing bayan habang ang driver ng ambulansya ay si Jojo Tong, 42 years at taga bayan ng Datu Piang.

KORONADAL CITY ---- The South Cotabato provincial government received 20 oxygen tanks each from the Pitmaster Foundation, Inc.  as capacity-building support to boost its emergency response capability.

Rolly Doane Aquino, acting Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer, said Saturday South Cotabato Gov. Reynaldo Tamayo is grateful to Atong Ang, president of the Pitmaster Foundation, Inc. and its executive director, the lawyer Caroline Cruz, for facilitating the donation.

(UPDATE) COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company today the scheduled power interruption for Sunday, Sept. 26, has been cancelled.