Mindanao Armed Conflict

COTABATO CITY --- A gunman shot dead Thursday night in General Santos City a police intelligence agent involved in anti-terror surveillance missions. 

Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg, director of the Police Regional Office-12, on Friday identified the slain policeman as Corporal Razul Alongan of the Tambler Police Precinct in General Santos City.

Alongan was inside an eatery in Barangay Fatima in General Santos City when a man approached from behind, pulled out a .45 caliber pistol from a sling back and shot him in the head, killing him on the spot.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Arestado ang dalawang snatchers matapos na madakip sa mas pinaigting na military checkpoint sa Brgy. Dumaguil, Norala, South Cotabato.

Kinilala ang mga supek na sina Asim Fahad Mamalinta, 20-anyos at Ramil Ali, 32-anyos, kapwa residente ng Salimsi, Buluan, Maguindanao del Sur. Nakumpiska naman ng pulisya mula sa pag-iingat ng mga suspek ang isang Cal .38 revolver, illegal na droga at tatlong cellphones.

KORONADAL CITY - Authorities are certain the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters together perpetrated the bombing at noontime Monday of a bus in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat that hurt seven passengers.

Reports have been circulating in central Mindanao since Monday night purporting that the bombing was to avenge the deaths of 17 leaders of both groups in clashes with pursuing soldiers and policemen in central Mindanao in the past 16 months.

GEN.SANTOS CITY – Seven individuals incurred minor injuries in an explosion inside a passenger bus at Isulan Public Terminal, Brgy. Kalawag 2, Isulan, Sultan Kudarat at around 12:20 PM this day.

NASA APAT hanggang anim na mga pasahero sakay ng Husky bus ang nagtamo ng minor injury kasunod ng pagpapasabog ng bomba sa Integrated Public Terminal ng Isulan, Sultan Kudarat tanghali kanina.

Ito ang kinumpirma sa Radyo Bida ni Sultan Kudarat PNP Deputy Provincial Director for Operations Lt. Col. Lino Capellan.

Ang double decker checker bus ng Husky company ay galing ng Cotabato City patungo sanang General Santos City.

Inaalam pa ang pagkakakilanlan ng mga sugatang pasahero.

Investigvation continues.

PATAY ON THE spot ang Municipal Councilor ng Datu Salibo, Maguindanao del Sur matapos pagbabarilin ngayong umaga.

Kinumpirma ito sa DXMS Radyo Bida ni Datu Salibo municipal information officer Rex Torino.

Kinilala ang konsehal na si Demon Daglok Silongan.

Sinabi ni Torino na palabas ng kanyang sasakyan si Silongan para sana sa kanilang Monday regular session sa Sanggunian nang pagbabarilin ng mga suspek.

Nagpapatuloy pa ngayon ang imbestigasyon ng mga otoridad.

COTABATO CITY - Authorities are bracing for retaliations by local terrorists for the deaths of four accomplices, tagged in high-profile crimes, policemen killed in a clash Wednesday in Tulunan, Cotabato.

Local officials, police and military intelligence officials told reporters Thursday Danny Cabakungan and his four henchmen had links with both the Dawlah Islamiya and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters.

Both groups, fashioned from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, are blamed for all deadly bombings in central Mindanao since 2014.

KIDAPAWAN CITY  – Police neutralized Wednesday five members of a private armed group and seized assorted high powered guns and explosives after they resisted arrest and traded shots with lawmen.

Brig. Gen. Jimili Macaraeg, police regional director for the Soccsksargen region, said joint police units from North Cotabato and from Tulunan municipal police station were to serve search warrants against Danny Lamalan Cabakungan, alias “Commander Magnetic,” for violation of RA 10591 or illegal possession of firearms and explosives at about 4 a.m. when he and his men resisted.

COTABATO CITY - Gunmen killed in an ambush at dusk Tuesday a policeman instrumental in the entrapment of no fewer than 20 high-profile shabu dealers in Cotabato province in the past two years.

The slain Staff Sgt. Abejay Dandan of the Drug Enforcement Unit of the Cotabato Provincial Police Office, who belonged to a big clan in Pikit town in Cotabato, was also popular for his hardline stance in dealing with law offenders. 

KORONADAL CITY - A lady village chairperson in Sarangani province was killed by two gunmen riding tandem on motorbike on Sunday while she was walking near the village hall.

Police identified the victim as Chairperson Tonesa Sarudin of Barangay Mindupok, Maitum, Sarangani province. She died on the spot after she was shot by motorcycle–riding gunmen at a roadside fronting the Barangay Hall on Sunday.

A police report said Sarudin, 55, was walking beside the national highway at 9:55 a.m. when unidentified gunmen passed by her and opened fire.