DAGUPAN CITY – One-hundred thirteen families composed of 411 individuals from Pilar, Abra and Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur were evacuated following a series of encounters between soldiers and the New People’s Army on Tuesday, April 2. THE government has provided assistance to families from Abra and...
Major Rigor N. Pamittan, chief of 5ID public affairs office (Photo courtesy of Pamittan via DWDD) At least 402 individuals were forced to flee their homes when Philippine Army (PA) soldiers and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels engaged in a series of armed encounters in Pilar, Abra on Tuesday, April...
SANTA MARIA, Ilocos Sur – Classes were suspended on Wednesday, April 3, in Pilar, Abra and the activities on Tuesday night, April 2, in the 2nd Balicucha Festival here were cancelled following an encounter between the 50th Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army (NPA) in the boundary...
DAGUPAN CITY – The 50th Infantry Battalion and the New People’s Army (NPA) clashed on Tuesday morning, April 2, in Barangay Nagcanasan, Pilar, Abra. LOCATION of Pilar town in Abra province where an encounter between the New People's Army and soldiers occurred. The 50th IB was conducting a...
TAYUM, Abra – A two-year-old child drowned in an irrigation canal in Barangay Gaddani here on Sunday, March 17. Police Executive Master Sergeant Rholen Emherson S. Bigornia, duty officer of the Tayum police station, identified the victim as Prince Wayne German. The boy was last seen when his...
PEÑARRUBIA, Abra – A 31-year-old lawyer drowned in a spring in Sitio Matit, Barangay Patiao, this town, on Saturday, February 24. UNP College of Law-Law Student Government FB Police Capt. June Saliw-an, town chief of police, identified the victim as Princess Caroline Nichole Cancio Ibarra, of...
A New People’s Army rebel was killed in an encounter with the military in Sitio Laoc, Barangay Pateng, Gonzaga, Cagayan on Friday, February 23. THE military engaged New People's Army rebels in Sallapadan, Abra and Gonzaga, Cagayan. The 502nd Infantry Brigade encountered remaining members...
BANGUED, Abra – A traffic enforcer was gunned down here on Sunday, January 21. Police identified the victim as Geraldine B. Peralta, a traffic enforcer in this town residing in Bucay, Abra. Initial investigation said Peralta was driving his tricycle in Sitio Kabildatan, Zone 7, when a man...
TUBO, Abra – Police discovered war materials in an abandoned New People’s Army camp in Barangay Kili here on Monday, November 27. MAP of Tubo, Abra. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr., Police Regional Office-Cordillera chief, said the 143rd Special Action Company, 14th Special Action Battalion,...
BANGUED, Abra – Police said the barangay elections in this province on Monday, October 30, was generally peaceful, except for an incident in Tineg on the eve of the polls. Police Col. Froiland B. Lopez, Abra police director, said three police officers were immediately deployed as special Board of...
BANGUED, Abra (PNA) – Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman George Erwin Garcia said the government is in full control of the situation, particularly in this province, as the country holds the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on Monday, October 30. GARCIA (FB) “We would like to...
BANGUED, Abra – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) said 250 candidates have withdrawn from the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 30 in this province. Provincial Election Supervisor Mae Richelle C. Belmes said many candidates for SK chairman and SK kagawad or councilor...
