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KORONADAL CITY - Police authorities in Tantangan, South Cotabato has reminded anew motorists to driver with extra care to avoid accidents that claimed lives and properties.The appeal was issued anew by Police Senior Inspector John Rick Medel in an interview by Happy FMKoronadal Monday following a highway mishap involving two hauler trucks in Barangay Mangilala, Tantangan, South Cotabato at past noon.A Gardenia Bread delivery truck (UMP-514)and a prime mover (CUC-606)collided head-on, killing bread deliverytruck driverBrian Villegas, andhelpersHeronjo Arsolon and Donald Bilbao, all residents

KIDAPAWAN CITY – An Indian national engaged in money lending is in hot water after he was accused of slapping recently a Filipina clerk here for allegedly failing to pay her debt. Kidapawan City councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison, co-chair of the Committee on Women and Family of theSangguniang Panglungsod, said they will do everything to penalize the ‘Bombay’, local term for Indian national engaged in money lending with a very exorbitant interest. Sison heads the committee that investigates, in aid of legislation, the slapping incident of an Indianto a Filipina here.

PIKIT, North Cotabato - A farmer was wounded when unidentified men tossed a hand grenade in the village of Kolambog Thursday night, police said.Senior Inspector Sindatu Karim, Pikit police chief, identified the victim as Elly Tanudtanud Canete, resident of Barangay Kolambog. Karim said the victim was with his friends at past 8 p.m. when the fragmentation grenade exploded.He said no one claimed responsibility and the motive remained unknown.

COTABATO CITY - A yellow sedan car caused heavy traffic along Sinsuat Avenue here as commuters suspected it was a car bomb.Responding policemen and bomb experts cordoned off the area and rerouted traffic flow to check on the suspicious vehicle at about noon Friday.While bomb experts were checking on the car, its owner showed up and denied it was a car bomb. He told police that the car developed engine trouble so he left it to fetch a mechanic.

COTABATO CITY – Almost every night in
the past week, military helicopters have been flying around the city and in the
coastal areas of Maguindanao, sending residnets to wonder what was it all
about.

Nothing to worry,” Captain Joann
Petinglay, speaking for the 6th Infantry Division, told DXMS Radyo
Bida Cotabato City.

It was a routinary flight the military
and Philippine Air Force call proficiency flights,” she added.

The choppers that hover the city have
no lights and fly low raising questions among the residents.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -At least 615 residents from two remotest barangays here continue to languish at the evacuation sites located at the town’s center after Moro rebels believed to be members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) clashed three days ago with armed farmers, some of them members of the Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) and Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team.

COTABATO CITY - Be vigilant, avoid setting on firedried backyard leaves and put off house appliances when not in use.These are some of the reminders of the Cotabato City Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) to residents as cases of fire have been on the rise during the Fire Prevention Month.No major fire incident have occurred in the city but in Region 12, at least 25 fire incidents have been reported, many of which were grass fires.In Cotabato City, Deputy Fire Marshall James Rah called on the residents to be on guard and avoid activities that may trigger conflagration.Rah issued the appeal fol

KORONADAL CITY -- Another grass fire hitBarangay Paraiso, Koronadal City this afternoon.Villagers noticed smoke billowing from the grass site of the village that eventually grew bigger.Responding fire fighters from the City Bureau of Fire Protection are still trying to put off the blaze.To date, eight grass fire incidents have been reported this Marchwhich the country is celebrating Fire Prevention Month.

PIGCAWAYAN,
North Cotabato – Police authorities arrested here Friday morning a man believed
to be involved in illegal drug trade.

Gialuson
Abas did not resist arrest when elements of Pigcawayan PNP and Regional Public
Safety Battalion of the PNP raided his home in Barangay Poblacion 2,
Pigcawayan, North Cotabato at 9 a.m.

Sr.
Inspector Donald Cabigas, Pigcawayan police chief, said the raiding team was armed
with arrest warrant and seized 17 heat sealed sachets of suspected methamphetamine
hydrochloride from Abas.

COTABATO CITY –
Unidentified men tossed a hand grenade inside the residential compound of
Maguindanao schools division superintendent Meriam Kawit in Shariff Aguak,
Maguindanao Thursday.

The grenade
failed to explode and was safely defused by police and Army bomb experts.

Kawit found
the grenade at about 6 a.m. while she was on her way to the Maguindanao
provincial peace and order council meeting.