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COTABATO CITY -- Unidentified men lobbed a hand grenade at the roof of Police Station 2
along Sinsuat Avenue, this city Monday afternoon.

It was the
second grenade attack on a police station since Saturday night.

Nobody was
hurt in the 3:45 p.m. attack since the grenade failed to explode, according to
Senior Insp. Carlo Jurinario, station 2 chief.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat -- A fire of still unknown origin destroyed the oldSultan Kudarat provincial capitol in Barangay Kalawag 2, here Monday afternoon, Radyo Bida Koronadal reported today.The conflagration that started at about 1:30 p.m.

MARAWI CITY --- Witnesses to Saturday’s daring rescue by Islamic militants of eight companions from the Lanao del Sur provincial jail are reluctant to cooperate in the on-going investigation on the incident.
Local officials on Monday told the www,ndbcnews.com.ph the gunmen who sprung from the jail eight companions arrested and detained more than a week before for possession of improvised explosive devices belong to the Maute terror group, feared for its brutality on people suspected of spying on their activities for the police and military.

KORONADAL CITY - After a week-long surveillance, police in Tantangan, South Cotabato arrested over the weekenda couple believed to be engaged in illegal drug pushing.Chief Inspector John Erick Medel, Tantangan town police chief, identified the couple as Leonardo Abuan, a retired official ofpolice investigation unit in the province and his live-in partnerEmily Taberdo, both of Purok Sampaguita, Barangay Poblacion.After police agents managed to secure shabu from teh couple, an operation, PROJECT Double Barrel, was carried out.Medel said Tadero was included in the police watch list. A cal.

COTABATO CITY -- Police here are convinced the explosion that rocked the traffic management office on Saturday night could be an attempt to free detainees from Police Station 1 lock up cell.Senior Inspector Roel Zafra, Cotabato City policespokesperson, said bomb experts found fragments of asmoke hand grenade at the blast site.The explosive, he said, was lobbed atop the traffic office roof but it rolled down and exploded at the pavement.

COTABATO CITY -- Ninepersons have been
arrested in separate anti-drug and anti-crime operations in Region 12 the past
two days, police officials said today.

Supt. Romeo Galgo, PRO-12 regional information
office head, told and//www.ndbcnews.com.ph www.ndbcnews.com.ph
that anti-drug and anti-crime operations were successfully conducted here and
in Midsayap, North Cotabato, Gen. Santos City and in South Cotabato.

COTABATO CITY ) --- Islamic militants armed with AK-47 Kalashnikovs and M-14 rifles rescued eight companions from the Lanao del Sur provincial jail in a daring attack at dusk Saturday.The gunmen belong to the Maute terror group led by Abdullah Maute, an ethnic Maranaw who hails from Butig town in Lanao del Sur.Investigators said the militants arrived at the jail near the old Lanao del Sur provincial capitol in Marawi City, disarmed the guards on duty and set free their eight companions arrested by the police last week in Lumbayanague town in the same provinceFive of the eight men were ident

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao -- Police manhunt has been launched against 28 prisoners who fled the Lanao del Surprovincial jail after about 50 heavily armed men swooped down on the jail facility at 5:45 p.m. Saturday.Chief Supt.

TACURONG CITY - One hundred
twenty days of healthy and free lunch for schoolchildren in Tacurong City will
start on August 30 under the Busog Lusog Talino” School Feeding Program (BLT).

This is the fourth year of
BLT implementation in Tacurong City, officials said.

To mark this milestone, Mayor
Lina Montilla, said the city government decided to adopt a new school for
BLT—the Lancheta-Magallon Elementary School (LMES) in Barangay Lancheta.

PIKIT, North Cotabato -- One of three hunted escapees from the North Cotabato provincial jail died on Thursday night, barely 24 hours after bolting out from the prison facility in Kidapawan City, after resisting arrest from pursuing police authorities here.Sr. Insp. Sindatu Karim, Pikit police chief, identified the fatality as Mama Makalati aka Marco, who together with Esmael Nasser aka Derbi, and Musanip Kusin, bolted prison on Wednesday dawn.Acting on a tip, Karim said he and his men swooped down on an abandoned lot in the boundary of Barangays Tinutulan and Monoguan around 830 p.m.