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GENERAL SANTOS CITY (PNA) -- The city government has mobilized its personnel to assist efforts for the immediate and safe release of four businessmen from this city who were seized by members of an alleged kidnap gang in Maguindanao province two weeks ago.City Mayor Ronnel Rivera said he has assigned a team that will closely monitor and ensure proper coordination with law enforcement units who were working on the reported abduction of business partners Engr.

COTABATO CITY - A Maguindanao village official is now facing charges for violation of Republic Act 9165 or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 after he was arrested in a joint anti-narcotics agents-military operations in Datu Abdullah Sangkitown over the weekend.Considered high value target, Norodin Kasan Sangki alias Datu Nouri Sangki, village councilman of Barangay Maganding, Datu Abdullah Sangki town inMaguindanao was arrested by joint agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement AGency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao(PDEA-ARMM) and elements of the 33rd Infantry Batta

A suspected improvised bomb in a box left unattended in a vacant lot in Koronadal City has created fear along Arellano Street Sunday night.But Koronadal City Councilor Junette Hurtado said it was not a bomb.Police and villagers have been on alert following the foiled bombing attempt on a bus in nearby Tacurong City last week.

COTABATO CITY -- Police authorities here announced the arrest last week of aman believed to have shot dead the executive director of the Regional Reconciliation and Reunification Commission of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).Senior Supt.

DAVAO CITY -- Kidnapped Indian national Jaspar Singh Malhi was finally rescued by joint operatives on Friday morning in Calinan, Davao City after three days of police operation.The police also arrested kidnapping mastermind, Jerry Singh, an Indian national and four other suspects identified as Noel Onin, Josephine Onas, car driver Kokong Pagalan, and motorcycle driver Julius Ibol.In Maguindanao, four young enterpreneurs from Gen. Santos City remained captives after they were seized, allegedly in Shariff Aguak town on March 29.Only the Cotabato City police director, Supt.

MLANG, North Cotabato - A fire of still unknown origin hits Barangay Tibao Elementary School here Thursday afternoon.

MIDSAYAP, North Cotabato - Police authorities believed the bomb attack against the regional office of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA-12) in Barangay Villarica here was a form of harassment.Supt.

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – A powerful improvised explosive device (IED) exploded
Wednesday dawn inside the compound of National Irrigation Administration
(NIA-12) regional office here, police said.

Another
IED was also found in the same compound following the 5 a.m. blast, according
to Supt. Reynante delos Santos, Midsayap police chief.

The
bomb attack came one day before the 37th foundation day anniversary of
NIA on Thursday.

COTABATO CITY - Police authorities in Sultan Kudarat are looking at personal grudge as the motive in the shooting of a Davao City-basedbarker and van driver on Sunday morning.Senior Insp.

COTABATO CITY - The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines today said ittraced what triggered a seven-hour Mindanao-wide power blackout on Easter Sunday, a state news agencyreported.The Philippine News Agency quoted Beth Ladaga of NGCP's corporate and public affairs thatoperations of the local electric cooperatives and power distribution utilities in Mindanao are now normalized.She said power transmission is now back in Mindanao after all NGCP substations and power plants connected to backbone lines in Mindanao were synchronized to the grid as of 7:50 a.m.