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STO NINO, South Cotabato – Thirty-one personshave been arrested by police during aseries ofpolice anti-illegal
drug raid in four towns in South Cotabato on Friday.In Sto Nino, South Cotabato,Senior Insp. Bernie Faldas, town police chief, said police and military forces, armed with arrest
and search warrants issued by Judge Marlo Brasales ng 1st MCTC-Norala-Tboli-Sto
Nino, raided the village of Ambalgan where shabu was open and publicly
peddled.”The raid was conducted at 11

COTABATO
CITY -– Authorities eye extortion as the motive in the foiled bombing
attempt of a bus unit plying the Cotabato City-Gen. Santos City Thursday
afternoon in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao.

Prior
to the bombing attempt, the bus firm, Gen. Santos City-based Husky Bus Company,
has received extortion demand from a certain Abu Saddab who heads the group
called ISM,” according to Carlo Manalo, the bus firm’s Cotabato station
head.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --After seven years in hiding, a farmer accused of murder was arrested in Magpet, a hinterland town in North Cotabato, Thursday. Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDG) in North Cotabato and elements of the Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSP) in Region 12 led the apprehension of Hernando Recona, farmer from Barangay Kisandal, Magpet, included as among the most wanted person in North Cotabato. Recona, reports from the CIDG said, has been wanted for murder that happened in 2009.

PIKIT,
North Cotabato – Police authorities here have launched massive
manhunt against two men who lobbed a hand grenade Tuesday morning at house in a
remote village here that left three persons injured, a police official today
said.
Police
Chief Insp. Sindatu Karim, Pikit municipal police chief, said the grenade
attack occurred at 7:20 a.m. in the house of Dawadi family in Barangay Inug-og,
Pikit.Karim
identified the injured as 50-year-old Toks Dawadi, a volunteer watchman of

MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao -- While residents of this town have sad stories on the January 25, 2015 hostilities in their once idyllic barangays, they have good tales too on how the carnage ushered in improvements in their communities.For one, folks never ever thought local infrastructure projects, amounting to almost P100 million, can be implemented by the executive department of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) after the Mamasapano incident in record time, from February to December 2015.At least 44 operatives of the police’s elite Special Action Force (SAF), 17 members of the M

COTABATO CITY -- A magnitude 5.0 earthquake hit the coastal town of Saranggani in Davao Occidental at 5:17 p.m. Monday, the state volcanology office said.In a news bulletin, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), said the earthquake which was tectonic in origin was traced 397 kilometers east of Saranggani town and has a depth of 46 kilometers.No casualty or damage to property was recorded.It was the third earthquake to hit the coast of Davao Occidental since January 23.

KORONADAL CITY -- Police and Highway Patrol Group operatives arrested today four men who posed as personnel of Land Transportation Office in Region 12 and mulcting on motorists and businessmen.Chief InspectorArnold Cariño,South Cotabato Highway Patrol Chief, identified the suspects asMack Usop, Benjie Candang, Buhari Upam and Marco Abutazil.

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COTABATO CITY – A grass fire in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao triggered more than 2-hour
power outage in Cotabato City and 8-hour inMaguindanao Friday night and
Saturday morning, the NGCP said.

Melfrance
Capulong, speaking for the NGCP, said one of its transmission wooden poles was burned
and toppled in Barangay Salimbao, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao at 10:57 p.m.
Friday.

COTABATO CITY - A burned and toppledpost in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao triggered more than 2 hour power interruption in the whole franchise area of Cotabato Light and Power Company Friday evening and Saturday morning.Anna Lea Natanio, speaking for Cotabato Light, said the NGCP 69kV line from Simuay sub-station to Cotabato City tripped off at 10:57 Friday.Power was fully restored at 1:40 a.m.