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MAPGET,
North Cotabato – A farm family here is crying for justice after its daughter was found dead in a banana plantation of Barangay Binay.

Police
have launched a manhunt against a man who allegedly abducted, raped and killed
a 13-year-old daughter of a farmer couple Sunday.

Relatives
and police found the bloodied remains of April Joy Bangunon in a banana
plantation in Barangay Binay, Magpet on Sunday morning, according to report
from Magpet PNP, headed by Senior Insp. Realan Mamon.

PIKIT,
North Cotabato – One guerilla was killed when warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) rebels clashed in a remote village of Pikit, North Cotabato Monday,
officials said today.

Lt.
Colonel Audie Edralin, 7th Infantry Battalion commander, said two
warring groups all belonging to the MILF clashed starting at 8 a.m. that left
Maglalang Latip dead.

KIDAPAWAN CITY
– Three covered court projects, two of which were initiated by the Trade Union
Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and one funded by the Provincial Government
of Cotabato were handed over to village officials of Barangays Magatos and
Pisan in Kabacan and Barangay Sikitan in Kidapawan City respectively, officials
announced Monday.

North Cotabato
Governor Emmylou Mendoza led the turnover of the projects in Barangay Magatos
and Pisan in a simple but well-attended ceremony with the local officials and
their constituents.

COTABATO CITY –
Election officials in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) today
said the 10-day Sangguniang Kabataan registration was a success although it did
not reach its target.

Lawyer Ray
Sumalipao, ARMM election officer, said 11,250 youth aged 15-17, in the
provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have
availed of the list up from Sept. 20 to Sept. 29.

KIDAPAWAN CITY(Sept.

KIDAPAWAN
CITY (Sept. 28) — A couple died instantly when the motorcycle it was sideswiped
by a 10-wheeler truck along a highway in Barangay Malasila, Makilala, North
Cotabato Friday evening.

PRC to open in Koronadal

KORONADAL CITY
(Sept. 25) – Responding to requests by the Region Development Council (RDC) in
the SOCCSKSARGEN region, the Philippine Regulatory Commission will open a
branch office here, the PRC said.

Teresita
Manansala, PRC chairperson, said she already directed the PRC Davao to open an
office here as soon as possible to expand its services to its clients.

Soon to serve you - DXOM-AM Radyo Bida - Koronadal City

KIDAPAWAN
CITY (Sept. 24) – Armed men suspected to be members of the renegade Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) harassed villages in the adjoining towns of Matalam
and Kabacan in North Cotabato Tuesday night, authorities said.
The
renegades, numbering about 50 first harassed a militia detachment in the village
of Malamote, Matalam, North Cotabato that triggered an overnight exchange of
gunfire, 1Lt. Jose Carlos Gamuz, chief of the 7th Infantry Battalion
Charlie company told Radyo Bida Kidapawan.

(UPDATE) KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept. 23) -- Unidentified gunmen shot dead Tuesday afternoon a tricycle driver who was trying to make both ends meet by hauling passengers here.Police identified the victim as Boyet Palaca of legal age and a
resident of Barangay Mateo, Kidapawan City. The victim was on board his motorcycle when the
suspects riding on a motorcycle shot him with a hand gun at 3:30 p.m.Palaca sustained multiple gunshot wounds in the different parts