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KORONADAL CITY- Nasa mabuting kalagayan na ngayon ang isang sanggol na inabandona sa harap ng isang tahanan sa Norala, South Cotabato kaninang madaling araw.

Ang bata na inilagay sa blue backpack ay isinabit sa isang tahanan sa Purok Aquino, Barangay San Miguel, Norala, South Cotabato

Sinabi ni Mary Kris Aquino-dela Cruz na taga Norala na nadiskubre ang sanggol pasado 5:30 ng umaga ng isa sa kanilang mga tauhan na si Ricky Dequina kung saan agad naman nila itong ipinaalam sa barangay para mabigyan ng medikal na atensyon ang sanggol.

TUPI, SOUTH COTABATO - Nagpapatuloy pa ang damage assessment ng Tupi Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) matapos ang pananalasa ng malakas na hangin at ulan sa nasabing bayan kahapon.

Sa panayam ng Radyo Bida Koronadal kay MDRRM officer Emil Sumagaysay, kabilang sa mga pininsala ng naturang kalamidad bandang alas 3 kahapon ay 15 mga kabahayan kung saan 14 dito ay partially damaged habang isa ang lubhang pininsala.

COTABATO CITY - To facilitate clearing of vegetation in the area and prevent unnecessary interruptions due to tree branches hitting transmission lines, the Cotabato Light has scheduled power interruption from Barangay Linek to Tapian, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao today, Tuesday, June 29.  

KORONADAL CITY -- Problema ngayon ng mahigit 800 na mga pamilya ng Barangay Dagoma, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat kung papano makabangon sa pananalasa ng flashflood sa kanilang lugar linggo ng hapon, Hunyo 27, 2021.

Ayon kay Dagoma Barangay Chairman Merilo Cordero, totally damage din sa baha na halos lagpas tao ang 53 na mga bahay.

Binaha ayon kay Cordero ang mga Sitio ng Singko, Sais, Uno, Dos, Lower Linapawan at Sitio Cabuling sa Dagoma.

Dinagdag din nito na dagdag pahirap din sa mga mamamayan ang mga lumang troso sa bundok na tinangay ng baha sa kanilang lugar.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- The military supports a plan by the Sangguniang Panglungsod to regulate the use here of drones via an ordinance restricting the use of such devices without permission.  

Radio reports on Monday said the city council shall facilitate a joint legislative-executive conference to talk about a proposed ordinance that shall disallow the use of surveillance drones anywhere in the city without prior clearance.

COTABATO CITY - This is in line with the pre-SONA activities at the BARMM compound.

LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato - Nasa kustodiya na ng mga otoridad sa bayan ng Lake Sebu ang suspek sa pagpatay sa isang pastor noong Mayo 30.

Kinilala ang suspek na si Joel Cayugan, 31 anyos, may asawa at residente ng Sitio Lemsu-al 2, Brgy. Tasiman ng nasabing bayan.

Batay sa inisyal na imbestigasyon, nagtangkang tumakas si Cayugan matapos matunugan ang mga police na palapit sa kanyang kinaroroonan.  Pinaputukan pa umano niya ang mga police.

Gumanti pulis kayat tinamaan si Cayugan sa kanyang paa.

COTABATO CITY --- State agents seized P6.8 million worth of shabu from two runaway traffickers in a bungled entrapment operation in Maimbung town in Sulu province Saturday.

Juvenal Azurin, director of the Philipine Drug-Enforcement Agency-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, identified the elusive drug dealers as Bashir Jam and Basaron Rajikat, now subject of a joint police-military manhunt.

DAVAO CITY - A magnitude 5.1 quake rocks nothern-eastern Mindanao with its epicenter in Bayabas, Surigao del Sur Sunday.

Tectonic and has a depth of 46 kilometers, the tremors came at 3:14 p.m.

No reported casualties and damages to properties as of posting.

The reported intensities are as follows. 

MANILA – Former president Benigno Simeon Cojuangco-Aquino III’s ashes were laid to rest Saturday at the Manila Memorial Park in Parañaque City.

After the necrological services at the Church of Gesu inside the campus of his alma mater, Ateneo de Manila in Quezon City, Aquino’s urn was buried beside the tombs of his parents, former senator Benigno Jr. and Corazon, the president four terms earlier.

Sisters Ballsy Cruz, Pinky Abellada, Viel Dee, and Kris Aquino were joined by an estimated 500 other sympathizers.