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COTABATO CITY – Hours after President Duterte left this city where he launched anti-poverty programs for Mindanao, police and military bomb experts here recovered, and safely defused, an improvised explosive device from the house of the second batch of suspects of the Sept. 2 Davao City bombing.Supt.

MANILA (PNA) -- Joint military and police operatives have arrested four more suspects involved in the Sept. 2 Davao City bomb blast that killed 15 people and wounded 70 others, during operations in Cotabato City early Saturday.Army spokesperson Col.

COTABATO CITY -- A town mayor
in North Cotabato was arrested after anti-drug police unit served search
warrants against him before dawn Saturday, a day after another mayor and his companions were killed in separate anti-drug operation.

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MAKILALA, North Cotabato -– A Maguindanao town mayor
named by President Duterte as narcopolitician in August was killed along with
his nine heavily armed escorts during the implementation of Oplan Double Barrel
in Makilala, North Cotabato, police said.

Supt. Bernard Tayong, speaking for North Cotabato police
provincial office, said among the 10 fatalities was Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom,
mayor of Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao.

Tayong said the victims were rushed to Makilala Medical
Specialist Hospital but were pronounced dead on arrival.

MLANG, North Cotabato-- Police authorities today killed a 34-year-old man who resisted arrest during an anti-drug operation in M'lang, North Cotabato, police said.Supt.

NORTH COTABATO – Residents in Pikit town want their former deputy police chief prosecuted for his son’s having acquired mysterious ownership of the firearm of one of 44 police commandos killed in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last year.Senior Inspector Sindatu Karim is on floating status since anti-narcotics operatives from the Police Regional Office-12 in General Santos City found the missing firearm in the house of his son, Nasser, two weeks ago.The raiding team was to search for drugs in the house of the suspect, but found there the missing Ferfrans 5.56 millimeter assault rifle instead.Kari

KORONADAL CITY - A tomb at the Catholic cemetery here has become the apple of the eye of those visiting the graves of their loved ones ahead of this year's All Souls' Day.A concrete tomb was place in a manner it will not disturb neighbors in the overcrowded resting place near residential areas in Zone 4, Koronadal City.Due to limited space and overcrowding of tombs, the city government has ceased accepting burial for years now.But relatives of dead person (identity withheld), with the help of cemetery caretaker, had to be creative and innovative to fit in the resting place.A monument

KORONADAL CITY - A former worker of Koronadal City government under close police watch due to his alleged involvement in illegal drug trade was arrested by highway patrol officials Wednesday.Chief Inspector Harold Carino, South Cotabato Highway Patrol Group chief, said Jose Dexter Muega, 45, of Zone 2, Koronadal City was arrested at a highway checkpoint in Barangay Morales at about 11 a.m.Carino told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadal that his office has received a tip from concerned citizen about an on coming blue motorbike from nearby Tantangan town in South Cotabato with prohibited substance.Q

KORONADAL CITY -- Police authorities in Region 12 today said physical and macro-etching examination conducted on a rifle recovered from the son of a police officer in Pikit, North Cotabato belonged to one of the fallen Special Action Force following clash in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last year. The firearm, according to Supt. Romeo Gaglgo Jr, information chief of Police Regional Office No. 12, said the firearm was described as Ferfrans cal. 5.56mm rifle with defaced serial numbers. Its new serial number was FF 090465.