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PIKIT, North Cotabato – Police
and miltiary authorities are hunting down two men riding tandem on a motorbike
who shot and seriously wounded a militiamen here on Saturday. Insp. Sindatun Karim,
Pikit police chief, said Ariel Tano Wacan, 25, a member of 31st company ng 38th
Infantry Battalion, was driving his motorcycle when two men were seen tailing
him.

Upon reaching Barangay Bualan,
the suspects shot Wacan on his head. The
suspect fled after the incident.

MAKILALA, North Cotabato - The local government of Makilala will distributed construction materials for residents whose houses were either totally damaged or partially destroyed by the 5.2 earthquake that hit the province on September 20, officials said.Mayor Rudy Caoagdan said the LGU has alloted more than P1 million for the procurement of construction materials to be distributed to residents in Makilala's villages affected by the tremor.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The Kidapawan City government has installed high resolution closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) as part of security preventive measure and to record crime related incidents in major city streets.Mayor Joseph Evangelista said in a statement the local government unithas allocated P2 million to acquire the CCTV facilityas a means of promoting public safety for all motorists, commuters and pedestrians passing along four identified locations in Quezon Boulevard.These high tech equipment were installedalong the national highway, specifically atQuezon Boulevard-Barangay Avenu

MIDSAYAP,
North Cotabato – Unidentified armed men shot dead a 19-year-old man along a
busy street here on Wednesday night in what police believed was illegal drug
related.

Supt. Reynante
Delos Santos, Midsayap police chief, told DXMS Radyo Bida theshooting incident occurred at 7:45 p.m. along Quezon Avenue.

He identified
the victim as Nano Anas, sidewalk peddler of ready to wear clothes, also known
as Ukay-Ukay,” and resident of Dulawan, Datu Piang, Maguindanao.

BULUAN, Maguindanao-- A lumber trader was injured when two men riding on a motorcycle tossed two fragmentation grenades at his mini sawmill herebefore dawn Wednesday, police said.Reports reaching the office here of Gov.

KIDAPAWAN
CITY – A landslide at the slope of the country’s highest peak on Saturday forced
the Kidapawan City disaster team to relocate two families.

Psalmer
Bernalte, Kidapawan City disaster risk reduction and management council
officer, said the landslide occurred in Barangay Ilomavis, where a road
concreting project was on-going.

He
said relocated families’ houses were few meters away from the landslide site
and relocating them would save their lives.

It was a preemptive move, he said.

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COTABATO CITY -SUARA Bangsamoro has cautioned Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in his all-out war announcement against the
Abu Sayyaf Group in Basilan, expressing fear civilians will be the end losers.

COTABATO CITY –
Two men working as habal-habal” drivers were shot dead by still unidentified
gunmen along a highway hereWednesday dawn, police said today.

Senior Inspector
Reynaldo Delantin, chief of Cotabato City police station 2, identified the victims
as Satar Tambas, 18 and Dagul Ali, 18, both residents of Barangay Bagua Mother,
Cotabato City.

Habal-habal”
is a motorbike used as passenger transport vehicle.

COTABATO
CITY – The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) started clearing
portions of the Rio Grande de Mindanao where water hyacinth had started to
build up since yesterday.

Lawyer
Laisa Alamia, ARMM executive secretary, said personnel from the region’s department
of public works, ARMM Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team and
volunteers, have started clearing the Tamontaka River and Rio Grande de
Mindanao with water lilies that pose dangers to bridges and trigger floods to
low lying communities.