COTABATO CITY – Police have identified one of the two gunmen who ambushed and killed a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and his brother over the weekend in the commercial district here. “The PNP has identified and is actively investigating a person of interest who may have a direct link to the...
COTABATO CITY – A Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman here was killed while his brother was wounded in an ambush in this city’s busy thoroughfare on Saturday morning. Police Brig. Gen. Jansen de Guzman, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) police chief, was at the crime scene,...
COTABATO CITY – To speed up the resolution of an ambush here that left three people dead and two injured, Mayor Bruce Matabalao has offered a reward for information that would identify the assailants. Police said they have already identified persons of interest behind the ambush of Barangay...
COTABATO CITY – A village chairwoman escaped death in a daylight ambush by six gunmen on separate motorcycles on a busy street here on Tuesday morning, police said. Police Col. Jibin Bongcayao, city police director, said Barangay Poblacion 9 chief Pahima Ayunan Pasawiran-Pusaka was slightly...
COTABATO CITY – After months of covert operations, agents of the National Bureau of Investigation in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (NBI-BARMM) on Thursday arrested a suspected bomber linked to Mindanao bus bombings and bus burning in 2021. NBI-BARMM Director Jonathan Balite...
COTABATO CITY – A suspect in the murder of a police officer in a mall parking lot here last December was arrested Monday afternoon by the Philippine National Police Anti-Kidnapping Group (PNP-AKG) and the local police. Brig. Gen. Romeo Macapaz, regional director of the Police Regional Office-...
COTABATO CITY – Three individuals in Cotabato City have tested positive for monkeypox, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) to eight, health officials said Tuesday. Dr. Harris Ali, city health officer, said the three new...
COTABATO CITY – Forty-seven residents from Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte provinces were arrested here Sunday night after a commotion near the city hall that led to a shooting incident, injuring a cop and two civilians. “Police arrested all 47 persons as they remain persons of...
Two government engineers were gunned down on Friday, March 14, in Kidapawan City and a seven-year-old girl was raped and killed in Butuan City on Saturday, March 15. VIOLENCE rocked Kidapawan City as two government engineers were gunned down on Friday, March 14. (FB) Police Lt. Col. Dominador...
DAVAO CITY – A university professor was gunned down in Cotabato City on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 25. City police chief Police Col. Jibin Bongcayao identified the victim as Engr. Israel Angas, 29, a professor at the Notre Dame University College of Engineering and Computer Studies and a...
A man caught his wife and her lover in a motel on Valentine’s Day in Cotabato City. Police said the 22-year-old woman decided to meet up with her 18-year-old lover from South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur to celebrate the occasion. However, her husband found out their plan and he proceeded to...
DAVAO CITY – Six years since being at the helm of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, interim Chief Minister Ahod Balawag Ebrahim reiterated that education remains as among the keys in solving peace and sustaining development in the region. BARMM officials during the...