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COTABATO CITY - Power service interruption, as scheduled, will be implemented on May 5 in the coastal villages of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao as part of primary line maintenance activity in the area, the Cotabato Light and Power Company announced today.

GEN. SANTOS CITY – Seven personnel of Police Regional Office (PRO 12) were recognized during the traditional Monday flag raising Ceremony at PRO 12 Grandstand, Barangay Tambler on May 2, 2022.

Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, PRO-12 regional director awarded the following personnel for displaying meritorious acts during the service of Warrant of Arrest against Edu Dela Peña alias Yoyong in Barangay Sinawal, General Santos City on April 5, 2022.

TACURONG CITY --- A lone gunman shot dead in an attack here Monday a businessman residing in nearby President Quirino town in Sultan Kudarat.  

In an initial report, the Tacurong City Police Office identified the fatality as Jerry Gacayan, who died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.

The victim was attacked by a man armed with a pistol while having his vehicle cleaned in a carwash stall along General Luna Street in Tacurong City.

The police have launched a hunt for the suspect.

GEN. SANTOS CITY - Some 40,000 liters of diesel and gasoline went aflame when two tanker trucks collided in Malungon, Sarangani before dawn Sunday and caused a fire that took firemen three hours to douse off.

Both units are owned by the Super Soy Commercial Center operating tanker trucks-for-hire.

Lt. Wennie Perez, deputy police chief of Malungon, said Saturday the two tanker trucks were both bound for Davao City from here when the one leading ahead, wiggled, flipped and landed on its side due to mechanical trouble.

NORALA, SOUTH COTABATO - Nagdadalamhati ngayon ang pamilya ng isang menor de edad matapos makuryente sa Barangay Matapol sa bayang ito.

Kinilala ang nasawing biktima na si Joshua Alvarez, 16 taong gulang, estudyante at residente ng Brgy. Matapol ng nasabing bayan.

Sa panayam ng Radyo Bida sa ina nitong si alyas Bebeng, sinabi niya na pasado ala-1 ng madaling araw nang pauwi na galing umano sa discohan si Alvarez kasama ang kaniyang dalawang barkada sakay ng motorsiklo ngunit nadulas sila dahil sa ulan kaya minabuti nilang maglakad na lang.

COTABATO CITY - As part of maintenance activities, the Cotabato Light has scheduled a four hour brownout in Kalanganan 2 on Saturday April 30.

PIKIT, North Cotabato - Suspected religious extremists seriously wounded a motorcycle-riding police corporal in an ambush here on Wednesday morning. 

Cpl. Shanthy Ben Marcelo Buagas, 25, of the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 12, a rapid law-enforcement and anti-terror unit of the Police Regional Office-12, sustained multiple gunshot wounds in the attack. 

COTABATO CITY -- Nakaranas ng flashfloods at pagbaha ang ilang lugar sa Barangay Paril, Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat dulot ng halos buong araw na pag-ulan kahapon, Martes.

SA report ng Sultan Kudarat Electric Cooperative linemen, tila naging ilog ang concrete highway sa Sitio Babangkaw, Barangay Paril, Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat.

Rumesponde ang mga tauhan ng Sukelco sa bumagsak na poste ng kuryente sa boundary ng Barangays Paril at Sangay at sinabayan sila ng dausdus ng tubig sa gitna ng highway.

TALAYAN, Maguindanao - WALANG KURYENTE, BINAHA PA.

Ito ang naranasan ng ilang lugar sa Maguindanao, kabilang ang Tambunan, Talayan, Maguindanao.

Umapaw hanggang sa national highway ang tubig sa Talayan matapos na umapaw ang tubig sa Tambunan bridge.

Ayon sa pahayag ni Eskak Usman, taga Barangay Tambunan, halos magdamag ang buhos ng ulan sa kanilang lugar at kaninang alas 3 ng madaling araw, habang sila ay naghahanda para magluto ay tumaas ang tubig at pumasok sa kanilang bahay.

COTABATO CITY -- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) announces power service interruption along Mabini Street, Barangay Bagua 3, Cotabato City on April 28, Thursday.