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KORONADAL CITY – Acting on a tip from a reliable informant, police and South Cotabato
highway patrol operatives arrested four persons and seized prohibited substance
from them during a checkpoint in Barangay Morales Monday afternoon.

Supt. Barney
Condes, Koronadal City police director, said the suspects yielded suspected
methamphetamine hydrochloride, a home-made pistol, shabu paraphernalia and cash
amounting to P3,800.

LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato - A wanted man resisted arrest here Sunday, traded shots with law enforcers and ended up dead.Killed was Fitu Wa Bid Sawang who traded bullets with arresting police officersinSitio Lampinik, Barangay Lamfugon, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato at past 5 a.m.Sawang sustained multiple gunshot wounds in various parts of his body and police rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.After the shootout, police also arrested Peter Herbilla and Jay-R Sagadon, including Ma Mundong Sawang whose house saved as hiding place for the wanted persons named in the

KIDAPAWAN CITY -More than a hundred rubber trees were caught by grass fire after a still unidentified villager allegedly threw a lighted cigarette on dried leaves in Barangay Pulang Lupa, M’lang, Saturday.The fire, which started at about 3 p.m. andlasted for at least an hour, was the second incident since last week. The first was last Friday when a grass fire damaged at least 20 rubber trees, also in Barangay Pulang Lupa.

ALEOSAN, North Cotabato -- Elements of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) tried but failed to overrun a para-military detachment in a remote village here, police on Saturday said.Senior Inspector Junete Napat, Aleosan town police chief, said about 50 suspected BIFF from Datu Salibo, Maguindanao harassed the detachment of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) at about 8 p.m.

COTABATO CITY --- Basilan folks will thank on Monday President Benigno Aquino III for the infrastructure projects his political protégé, Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), implemented in the island province in the past four years.Local officials, among them Vice Mayor Roderick Furigay of Lamitan City, on Friday said President Aquino will visit on Monday Barangay Tumahubong in Sumisip town west of the island province for a dialogue with community leaders.

TULUNAN, North
Cotabato -– Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and
Detection Group (CIDG) provincial office on Friday arrested here a man wanted
for his alleged involvement in illegal drug operation and shooting in nearby Davao
del Sur.
Chief
Inspector Christian Garcia, CIDG team leader for North Cotabato, in his report
to CIDG-CenMin, identified the suspect as Alfonso
Rasonable, a transient resident of Barangay Sibsib, Tulunan, North Cotabato.
The

KORONADAL CITY -- A construction worker stabbed to death his live in partner then ended his own life by hanging in a remote village here Thursday night, authorities said.The woman was Roxanne Taburnal, 25 and the suspect was Roy Bordo, 33,both residents of Purok Paglaum,Barangay Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City.According toCarpenter Hill Barangay Chairperson Benedicto Pastera, Taburnal sustained 14 stab wounds when she was found few meters away from their home, an indication she tried to escape from partner's attack that happened about 8 p.m.Pastera said Bordo then told his daughter to bring

COTABATO CITY --- Another staunch political supporter of reelectionist Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Mujiv Hataman was hurt in daring gun attack in Zamboanga City on Thursday.Radio reports on Friday morning said the victim, Ahmad Alip Nanoh, former mayor of Pangutaran town in the hostile Sulu island province, was driving his Toyota pick-up truck, with license plates JBW 925, when he was attacked and wounded by a gunman armed with a pistol.Sources from ARMM’s regional police office in Camp S.K.

The Jabidah Massacre was the alleged killing of Moro soldiers by members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on March 18, 1968. It was also known as the Corregidor Massacre as the killing took place in Corregidor Island in the Philippines. (Wikipedia)

KORONADAL CITY -- Armed men believed to be bandits operating in the hinterland borders of South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and Davao del Sur shot dead a radio operator of a mining firm they chanced upon as they passed by a remote village Thursday morning, police said.Senior Supt. Franklin Alvero, South Cotabato police director, identified the victim as Henry Bisaya, 45 and resident of Tupi, South Cotabato.