The death toll from the combined effects of Typhoon “Inday” and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) rose to 18 on Sunday, July 12, as more than 562,000 people across the country have been affected while hundreds of travelers remained stranded in ports due to rough seas. The Office of Civil...
Typhoon “Inday” has officially exited the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Saturday morning, July 11, but the nation remains under siege as the storm continues to enhance habagat or southwest monsoon, bringing relentless rains that have claimed at least 17 lives and displaced...
The death toll from rain-induced landslides triggered by Super Typhoon Inday and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat) climbed to 15 on Friday, July 10, after five more people were killed in a landslide in Lanao del Sur, adding to the 10 fatalities in a separate landslide in Sarangani. The Lanao...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Search, rescue, and retrieval operations are underway in Calanogas, Lanao del Sur, following a landslide early Friday, according to the police. The Lanao del Sur police said the incident happened at about 2:30 a.m. in Barangay Ngingir, with five persons killed, two injured, and...
Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), on Monday, June 22, directed a manhunt operation for a gunman who fatally shot a police officer inside a mosque in Madamba, Lanao del Sur. Police Chief Master Sergeant Alioden Sarangani, of the Madamba Municipal Police...
COTABATO CITY – A pursuit operation is underway for the still unidentified killer of an off-duty police officer who was shot dead while praying inside a mosque in Lanao del Sur on Saturday night. In his report Sunday, Police Capt. Steffi Salanguit, spokesperson for the Police Regional...
COTABATO CITY – Police are hunting members of two warring clans involved in skirmishes in Picong, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday, resulting in the death of one person embroiled in a clan war and the wounding of five civilians caught in the crossfire. The hostilities erupted after a public utility...
ILIGAN CITY – A rare juvenile Mindanao tarsier was recently rescued in the Piyapayungan mountain range in Marogong, Lanao del Sur. Residents of Barangay Diragun discovered the creature near a National Greening Program rehabilitation site and a partially disturbed forest area increasingly...
DAVAO CITY – The governors of the provinces of Lanao del Sur and Tawi-Tawi expressed support on Tuesday, May 19, to the move of Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) interim Chief Minister Abdulraof Macacua to instill reforms in the region. In separate statements, Lanao del Sur...
ILIGAN CITY – Five skeletal remains were discovered in Barangay Dilimbayan, Maguing, Lanao del Sur on Monday, May 11. They were unearthed by soldiers and police following information from residents and were buried in a public cemetery in Amai Manabilang, Lanao del Sur. Authorities appealed to the...
ILIGAN CITY – The military on Sunday confirmed that five members of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group neutralized during a law enforcement operation in Marantao, Lanao del Sur on April 17 were responsible for the deaths of four government troops in an ambush in Munai, Lanao del Norte last Jan. 26....
COTABATO CITY – Ten remnants of the local Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) behind the 2017 Marawi City siege were killed early Friday during a joint police-military operation in Marantao, Lanao del Sur. Police Capt. Steffi Salanguit, speaking for the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro...
