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KORONADAL CITY
– For resisting arrest, a man wanted for murder and frustrated murder was killed by police operatives in Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat over the weekend.

Police operatives,
led by Senior Inspector Sherwin Maglana, Lutayan police, and police elements
from Tampakan, South Cotabato and provincial police intelligence agents went to
the suspect’s house in Barangay Palavilla, Lutayan to serve the warrant of
arrest.

KORONADAL CITY - City Mayor Peter Miguel andPolice Senior Supt. Nestor Salcedo on Friday led the citypolice and the people of Koronadal in candle lighting ceremony and holy massto honor 44 fallen members of the PNP elite Special Action Force who died in Maguindanao clash.Salcedo, chief of Koronadal City PNP andan alumnus of the premier Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA), issued a strongly worded statement.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - The joint government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front on Tuesday has terminated the retrieval of the remains of slain Police special unit who figured in a bloody encounter with Moro rebels in Mamasapano town Sunday.Brig.

COTABATO CITY - The City Social Welfare Office will extend assistance to fire victims of Cotabato City whose houses were destroyed or damaged in a series of fire incidents last year.The relief assistance to fire victims came after the City Legislative Body approved a resolution for the release of more than P100,000 taken from the 5 percent Local Disaster Risk Reduction

COTABATO CITY - A South Korean mining executive remained in the hands of his unidentified abductors after he was forcibly taken on January 19 in Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur, police said.Senior Inspector John Condo, chief of PNP Saguiaran, Lanao del Sur, said three men met the Koran and his police personal escortin Barangay Mipaga, a border village of Saguiaran with Marawi City.Interviewed by DXMS Radyo Bida Cotabato City Thursday,Condo said Korean Song Ki Eon was based in Cagayan de Oro City and went to Iligan City to meet prospective business partners.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Police believed illegal drug trade that went wrong triggered the shooting of a 44-year-old man in Mlang, North Cotabato Tuesday noon, police said. Senior Inspector Jenahmeel Tonacao, Mlang police chief, identified the victim as Lindy Disumanong Said, a resident of Barangay Poblacion, Pikit, North Cotabato. Tonacao said Said was standing in front of his home when four men riding on motorbikes and shot him in the head. He died on the spot. The suspects, police said, were armed with M-14 andM-16 Armalite rifles, cal. 45 pistol and cal. 38 revolver.

MIDSAYAP, North
Cotabato – Nine farm workers from a remote village here have been hospitalized
after complaining of severe stomach pain and vomiting in what medical experts
said could be a case of food poisoning.

Dr. Manuel
Rabara, officer in charge of Amado Diaz Memorial Hospital, said the health
condition of nine male farm workers have been improving.

We could not
determine as of yet what causes the stomach pain and vomiting of the farm
workers unless a laboratory results are released,” Rabara told DXMS Radyo Bida
Tuesday.

PIGCAWAYAN,
North Cotabato - An alert purok leader prevented a bombing attempt here by
quickly reporting to the nearest police detachment of his discovery at a
roadside in Barangay South Manuangan Tuesday morning.

Interviewed by DXMS Radyo Bida,Senior
Inspector Donald Cabigas, Pigcawayan police chief, said the improvised explosive
device (IED) was discovered by Barangay South Manuangan Purok leader Godofredo
Piala at about 6 p.m.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Two men were separately shot in North Cotabatoover the weekend, one died while the other in critical condition, police said.Kaharodin Lumambas, 23, farmer of Purok Krislam, Matalam, North Cotabato was shot dead by still unidentified gunman in Barangay New Sebu, President Roxas, North Cotabato at 1 p.m. Saturday. In his reportPolice Senior Inspector Romy Castanares, President Roxas police chief, said a man invited the victim to back ride with him.

COTABATO CITY (Jan.
17) – A baby and two others were killed when a wayward passenger bus rammed on
a tractor pulling a trailer loaded with passengers before hitting a tree in
Aleosan, North Cotabato at 10 a.m. Friday.