DAVAO CITY – Four persons were killed after a private aircraft crashed on a rice field in Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 6. POLICE secure the crash site in Barangay Malatimon, Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur. (Photo courtesy of Sam Mala) The Ampatuan Municipal...
A police officer wanted for his alleged involvement in the Maguindanao massacre in 2009 was arrested on Monday afternoon, Feb. 3, in Barangay Making, Parang, Maguindanao del Norte. Maguindanao del Norte police chief Police Col. Eleuterio Ricardo Jr. identified the suspect as Police Officer 1...
Two barangay security officers were killed and three colleagues were wounded in a drive-by shooting in Barangay Labu-Labu, Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur on Monday night, Jan. 27. Police identified the victims as a 17-year-old Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team member and Esmael Singh, 20,...
Mayor Akmad Mitra Ampatuan of Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur on Tuesday dangled a P150,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of two men who robbed and killed a delivery van driver in Barangay Timbangan, Shariff Aguak on Monday. MOSQUE in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao del Sur. (FB)...
Two members of the Teduray Lambangian Indigenous Peoples tribe were killed in an ambush in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday afternoon. The fatalities were identified as Cita Angan, 39, and Ricky Tapioc, 30, residents of Barangay Mantao, Ampatuan. Angan was the wife of tribal...
A woman and her infant daughter and their driver were killed in an ambush Thursday in Barangay Mileb, Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur. Police identified the victims as Harrah Jinn Utto Lumenda, her three-month-old daughter, and driver Nunokan Manalindo, all residents of Rajah Buayan. Lumenda’s...
Former Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. (Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) Former Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos extended his...
Three persons died and 35 others were hospitalized after allegedly consuming improperly cleaned sea turtle meat in Barangay Linao, Datu Blah Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, authorities said Monday, Dec. 2. THREE members of the Teduray tribe died after eating allegedly tainted...
Eighteen countries have honored the courage of the journalists who lost their lives 15 years ago in the Maguindanao massacre and reiterated their call on the Philippine government to bring the remaining perpetrators accountable for the murder. Members of the Media Freedom Coalition in the...
Visayan journalists joined a solemn program on Thursday, Nov. 21, remembering the victims of the Maguindanao massacre in 2009. Fifty-eight persons, including 32 journalists, were killed in what is believed to be the single deadliest attack against journalists in the world. VISAYAN...
Two policemen died while two cops were wounded following a firefight with suspected members of a local drug syndicate in a buy-bust operation that went awry in Sultan Kudarat town of Maguindanao on Friday, Nov. 15. Police Lt. Gen. Bernard Banac, director of the Area Police Command- Western...
Mayors in Maguindanao del Norte support the postponement of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao parliamentary elections from 2025 to 2026. THE Bangsamoro Government Center in Cotabato City, the seat of government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. ...
