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COTABATO CITY - Unang nadakip ang pitong suspek sa isa umanong nadiskobreng Drug Den alas kwatro pasado ng hapon sa Purok 1, RH-9.

Nahuli ang pangunahing target na suspek na si Lordan Binayog, 22 anyos residente ng Barangay.

Kabilang sa mga dinakip ang anim pa na mga suspek na inabutan diumano sa lugar at sinasabing mga costumer ni Binayog.

Nakuha sa mga ito ang dalawang pakete ng pinaghihinalaang shabu, mga drug paraphernalia, suspected marijuana na nakabalot sa kapirasong papel at IDs.

To our valued Cotelco Member-Consumer-Owners, we will have a SCHEDULED power interruption on the date and affected areas, to wit:

WHEN: SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 (THURSDAY) - 2 HOURS & 3O MINUTES

Power Off - 12 MIDNIGHT Power On- 2:30 A.M

REASON:

Pull out, Transfer and Install 3-Phase 69-kv Sub-transmission line tapping pole going to M2-10-MVA Paco Substation

AFFECTED AREAS:

TOTAL BLACKOUT- M1-Matalam, M2-Paco, M3-Bagongsilang, M4-Kidapawan, M5-Bagontapay, M6-Kabacan, M7-Antipas, M8-Carmen COTELCO Substations, except M9-Kalasuyan Substation.

COTABATO CITY - To facilitate transfer of electric poles in the area, the Cotabato Light announces service interruption in BLISS project area in Notre Dame Village, Barangay Rosary Heights 8, Cotabato City on Thursday, Sept. 23. 

COTABATO CITY --- The police arrested two suspects in separate rape cases in different operations the past two days in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao.

Brig. Gen. Eden Ugale, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, said Tuesday the suspects, Kuyag Abdulkasan, 59, and the 43-year-old Basco Talipasan Taligaba are now locked in a detention facility of the Datu Odon Sinsuat municipal police.

To all member consumer served by Parang Feeder

What: Scheduled Power Interruption

When: September 21, 2021 Tuesday

Time: 12nnto 1:30pm

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Why? Installation of Overhead guy of 3 phase line at Brgy. Poblacion Parang Maguindanao

Affected Areas: Parang, Matanog, Barira and Buldon

Please bear with us for the inconvenience.

COTABATO CITY -- To facilitate primary line upgrading and improve power services, the Cotabato Light announces a 5-hour power service interruption, starting at 7 a.m. to 12 noon, on Sept. 25 affecting Gonzalo Javier Street and Purok Talitay in Barangay Rosary Heights 7, Cotabato City.

KORONADAL CITY --- Rescuers found along a river at the border of Barangays Santa Cruz and Magsaysay the cadaver of a 32-year-old man drowned in rampaging floodwaters in Tampakan town late Sunday.

The victim, Eric Sardito Diosma, 32, was positively identified by relatives, according to Rolly Doane Aquino, acting South Cotabato Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer.

Diosma was swept downstream by floodwaters spawned by heavy rains earlier Sunday.

COTABATO CITY - Bomb experts search the compound of Cotabato City National High School Rojas site after a grenade was allegedly found inside one of the comfort rooms. 

In her FB posts, Sheila dela Cruz of BTA-BARMM said the alleged grenade was discovered at about 2 p.m.

Police said bomb experts were called after a concerned citizen alerted the police about the discovery of a live hand grenade.

Bomb experts pulled the grenade from the gutter of the comfort room, brought it to safer place and disrupted it.

COTABATO CITY – A local official in Maguindanao said Moro extremists have forewarned the gays to stop playing volleyball in town.

Mayor Victor Samama of Datu Piang, Maguindanao said the victims, all belonging to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), were told by followers or sympathizers of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters to refrain from holding the games in the covered court.

A hand grenade or an improvised bomb set off by still unidentified men during a volleyball game at the town covered court Saturday, leaving eight players and spectators injured.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - Eight villagers got hurt in an explosion that ripped through a covered court in the town proper of Datu Piang on Saturday afternoon.

In an initial report, the Army’s 6^th Infantry Division said the explosive went off at one side of the covered court.

Lt. Col. John Paul Baldomar, spokesman of 6^th ID, said eight were hurt in the blast.

The victims, who sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of their bodies, were immediately rushed to a government medical dispensary nearby.