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MATALAM, North Cotabato -- A 21-year-old girl was killed while three others were wounded in a highway accident involving amotorcycle and cargo trucks along highway hereover the weekend.Senior Insp. Elias Colonia, Matalam police chief, said the accident transpired along Purok Krislam, Barangay Poblacion, Matalam.Police identified the fatality asKrizamae Seneo of Gen.

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COTABATO CITY - Police here announced today the arrest of the alleged suspect in the murder of a retired professor university professor in her home in the city Friday last week.Senior Supt. Rex Anongos, city police director, said the alleged killer whom he refused to identify is now under police custody undergoing investigation.Anongos said the local officials helped convinced the suspect to surrender and face the charges to be filed against him. He admitted to the crime, Anongos told DXMS Radyo Bida. He added that the local officials turned over the suspect to Senior Insp.

COTABATO CITY - Another shooting incident was reported in the city despite efforts of the local police to contain rising cases of crime against life.The latest victim of crime was Moktar Sangki Lindongan, 30, resident of Gov. Gutierrez Avenue, Barangay Rosary Heights 9, Cotabato City.Supt. Rex Anongos, city police chief, said police investigation showed the victim was inside Espinoza compound along Soledad Street, RH-13 when shot by still unidentified armed men.Responding elements of Police Station 2 found several empty shells for cal.

COTABATO CITY -Journalists from across the countrygathered here Fridayfor a two day forum dubbed Beyond Mamasapano, reporting the Bangsamoro peace process.His eminence Orlando Cardinal Quevedo, OMI, archbishop of Cotabato and staunch supporter of the Mindanao peace process was the keynote speaker.Speaking to journalists, Cardinal Quevedo to the members of the fourth estate that You have a vocation. You are agents for the communication of truth, justice, peace and love. These are the truly human values that serve as pillars of society.

KORONADAL CITY -- Local folks on Thursday witnessed not just an extensive earthquake drill, but one with conflagration and blast simulations for them to learn how to get through life-threatening emergencies even just by themselves.Regional personnel here of the Department of Trade and Industry and employees of the DTI’s South Cotabato provincial office played a lead role in the emergency exercise.The activity was initiated by local authorities in support of the July 23 nationwide earthquake drill of the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.The educational dramatization of an

COTABATO CITY - A state university professor in Maguindanao was found dead inside her home at the outskirt village of Cotabato City Friday, police said.Noria Ali, a widow andprofessor on peace studiesof the Mindanao State University in Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao, was found bloodied and lifeless inside her home along Tulingan Street,Barangay Bagua-2, Cotabato City.Police said neighbors noticed that Ali failed to come out of her house Friday morning like what she used to do daily.Curious, the neighbors knocked on her house but got no answer.

KORONADAL CITY - Unidentified men barged inside the house of South Cotabato's provincial board member Thursday and carted away undetermined amount of valuables, police said.Quoting a police report, DXOM-AMRadyo Bida Koronadal, reported that the house of South Cotabato provincial board member Grace Subere-Albios in Marville Homes, Barangay Sto Nino, South Cotabato,was ransacked by still unidentified men.Scene of the crime operatives found the second floor of the two-story house in disarray.

ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) -– One person died while nine others were injured when an improvised bomb exploded late Thursday at a massage parlor in this city.Senior Supt. Angelito Casimiro, Zamboanga City police director, said the incident occurred around 9:45 p.m. at a massage parlor at the junction of M. Calixto and San Jose Road just more than 100 meters away from the Zamboanga City Fire District (ZCFD) headquarters.Casimiro said the victim who died is only identified as a certain Irene.

COTABATO
CITY – The Aboitiz-owned Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light)
today warned of longer power interruption in its franchise areas if the
critical water levels in the Agus and Pulangi hydropower plants deteriorate.

Arlene
Hipega, Cotabato Light corporation communications officer, said the power
utility is yet to impose rotational brownout in Cotabato City and the towns of
Sultan Kudarat and Datu Odin Sinsuat in Maguindanao.