Mindanao Armed Conflict

FORT BONIFACIO, Metro Manila – During his visit to the 6th Infantry Division and its operationally controlled units in Central Mindanao on October 26 and 27, the Commanding General, Philippine Army (CGPA) Lt. Gen. Andres Centino reiterated his guidance to all units to utilize Army's resources on defeating the Armed Group.

In his "Talk to Troops," the CGPA emphasized the need for the Philippine Army to manage its limited resources to achieve an optimum result.

KORONADAL CITY --- A gunman shot and wounded the assistant director of the Department of Science and Technology-12 in an attack at a residential area here past 7:00 a.m. Wednesday.

Key sources from the Police Regional Office-12 said the 55-year-old Normina Pahm, who sustained a bullet wound in the shoulder, was immediately rushed to a hospital by responding barangay tanods and personnel of the Koronadal City Police.

COTABATO CITY - PATAY ANG DALAWA KATAO matapos barilin ng hindi pa natutukoy na salarin pasado tres ng hapon kanina sa Barangay Makir, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

Kinilala ang mga biktima na sina Barangay Kagawad Mansor Andil, at Aliakbar Abdullatip na pawang taga Barangay Pandag sa bayan ng Pandag, Maguindanao.

Sa inisyal na pagsisiyasat ng Datu Odin Sinsuat PNP sa pangunguna ni PLt.Col Romel Dela Vega, sakay ng HONDA 150 ang dalawang biktima nang buntutan sila ng hindi nakikilang mga suspek sakay ng hindi naplakahang motor.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao ---- The police and military are scrambling to disengage two armed groups that figured in a deadly gunfight Thursday in Datu Anggal Midtimbang town.

The incident resulted in the death of a certain Canapia, a security guard of the Amavi Cavendish Banana Plantation in Brar, Datu Anggal Midtimbang, and left two others, Datun Pagayao and a certain Kautin, wounded.  

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao ---The seven New People’s Army from Sultan Kudarat province who surrendered Sunday belonged to a group collecting “protection money” from traders and ordinary people.

Major Gen. Juvymax Uy, commander of the Army’s 6^th Infantry Division, said Tuesday the seven NPAs, whose names he withheld pending their relocation to safe areas, yielded through the intercession of officials of the 7^th Infantry Battalion and the 601^st Infantry Brigade.

COTABATO CITY --- The chairperson of Basilan’s provincial peace and order council, Gov. Jim Salliman, reiterated Wednesday his appeal to authorities to put a closure to Monday’s ambush of an election officer in the province.

“We condemn the incident and call again on the police and the military to help each other identify and file appropriate charges against the culprits,” Salliman said in a statement, speaking as chairperson of PPOC.

COTABATO CITY --- A man gone berserk killed himself and his wife and hurt five neighbors with a fragmentation grenade on Saturday in Malaybalay City in Bukidnon province.

The fatalities, Jojit,Leona, 44, and his 35-year-old wife, Remalyn, died on the spot from shrapnel wounds in different parts of their bodies.

Neighbors first heard the couple quarreling loudly before an explosion ripped through their house in Barangay Casisang in Malaybalay City, Bukidnon.

TROOPS seized five firearms -- one low-powered and four high-powered -- while conducting security operations in Pikit, North Cotabato, military officials announced.

Major General Alfredo Rosario, Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) chief, said the firearms were seized by joint elements of the 90th Infantry Battalion and 3rd Cavalry Company on Tuesday, October 5, while providing area security assistance to the Commission on Elections office at Pikit Municipal Hall.

KORONADAL CITY --- Three residents of South Cotabato province separately turned over to the police a mortar round, a 40 millimeter explosive projectile and a rifle grenade on Wednesday.

Farmer Allan Abellana found half buried in mud in his papaya farm in Barangay Kablon in Tupi town in South Cotabato the live 60 millimeter mortar round that he turned over to the local police.