BUTUAN CITY – Search teams have recovered two more bodies at the landslide site in Sitio Tagbulakan, Barangay Mahayahay, San Luis, Agusan del Sur, bringing the total number of recovered remains to five. Only one person of the six initially reported missing remains unaccounted for, San Luis...
BUTUAN CITY – Three persons were killed in a landslide in San Luis town, Agusan del Sur province. The search team recovered the remains of another victim around 11 a.m. on Tuesday. The identity of the victim was still being withheld as of posting time pending confirmation from family...
BUTUAN CITY – An estimated 10,269.28 board feet of confiscated lumber and logs were repurposed into school chairs to help fill the gap in the southern part of Agusan del Sur province. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Bunawan Community Environment and Natural Resources...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Two high-ranking leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippine-New People’s Army were arrested in Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur on Thursday, Sept. 11. The Police Regional Office 13-Regional Operations Division (PRO 13-ROD) said they are...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Police arrested Caraga region’s most wanted person after 10 years of hiding in Bayugan City, Agusan del Sur province on Wednesday. The 38-year-old suspect was a former political instructor of Section Committee 14 of the CPP-NPA Northeastern Mindanao...
BUTUAN CITY – Nineteen individuals were arrested on Monday in Agusan del Sur for violations of Republic Act 7942 or the Philippine Mining Act of 1995. The suspects, all residents of Davao de Oro province, were caught transporting 76 sacks of illegally mined mineral ores on board three separate...
BUTUAN CITY – A top leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) was arrested by combined forces of the military and the police in Barangays Bunawan Brooke and San Teodoro in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur on Friday. In a statement on Saturday, the 10th Infantry Division (ID) identified the arrested NPA...
CAMP COL. RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – Three police officers were injured by a farmer who ran amok during a family feud in Sitio Guitas, Barangay Bunawan Brook, Bunawan town, Agusan del Sur province on Thursday, May 29. “Arman, 67, a father with knife that ran berserk, was subdued by our...
BUTUAN CITY – A New People’s Army rebel was killed in a 30-minute encounter with soldiers in Barangay Magsaysay, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on Tuesday, March 4. TROOPS recovered war materials and personal from the New People’s Army following an encounter in Barangay Magsaysay, Prosperidad,...
BUTUAN CITY – A New People’s Army commanding officer and his vice commander were killed in an encounter with soldiers in Barangay San Lorenzo, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur on Wednesday, Feb. 12. The casualties were identified as Joven, commanding officer of the Regional Sentro de Gravidad...
BUTUAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-13 has ordered the Agusan del Sur Police Provincial Police Office to fast-track the investigation on the murder of an American national in Trento, Agusan del Sur on Feb. 2. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Christopher N. Abrahano told Agusan del Sur PPO...
The Sandiganbayan has acquitted former Agusan del Sur congressman Rodolfo G. Plaza and several others of multiple criminal charges involving the alleged irregular implementation of agricultural projects from 2004 to 2010 out of the former legislator's Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF). In...
