Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. directed the Philippine National Police (PNP) to conduct a hot pursuit against the suspects behind the ambush of Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo on Saturday, March 4. (Courtesy of Governor Roel...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A Scout Ranger was killed while his colleague was wounded in an ambush in Sumisip, Basilan on Tuesday, Feb. 21. The fatality was identified as a certain Staff Sgt. de Jesus while Staff Sgt. Roby Gallo Balbuena, 32, was wounded in the incident. Both are assigned to the...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police and Marine field units are hot on the trail of suspects behind the weekend ambush in Marogong town, Lanao del Sur province that killed a Marine sergeant and injured three others. “We have identified the suspects and a joint police and Marine manhunt operation is...
The Nueva Vizcaya State University in the town of Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya has denied reports that the government license plates SFN-713 found attached to the getaway vehicle in the ambush of Aparri, Cagayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda were stolen from them. Police investigators had earlier found out...
The attempt to eliminate all the trails that would disclose their identity did not become that successful for the attackers of Aparri, Cagfayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda after police investigators were able to save some numbers in the chassis and engine of the getaway vehicle that was found burned...
What happened to the decommissioning of weapons in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)? Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman (center) (Facebook) House Deputy Minority Leader and Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman had this question in mind amid the spate of violent...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) created to probe the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal "Bombit" Alonto Adiong Jr. on Friday, Feb. 17, in Maguing, Lanao del Sur is moving forward with its investigation. LANAO del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr. (left) with...
The gunmen who killed Aparri, Cagayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda and his five other companions in an ambush in Nueva Vizcaya deliberately used police uniforms and a stolen government plate in an apparent bid to mislead the ensuing investigation. This developed as the getaway car of the suspects in...
The Vice Mayors’ League of the Philippines (VMLP)-Cagayan chapter strongly condemned the ambush of Aparri, Cagayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda and four others in Nueva Vizcaya on Sunday, Feb. 19. “We are shocked and saddened that one of our officers has been added to the number of fallen victims...
NUEVA VIZCAYA -- Police Regional Office 2 acting director Brigadier General Percival A Rumbaoa clarified that the suspects in the ambush of the vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan and five others in Baretbet, Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya are not members of the Philippine National Police (PNP). BGen Rumbaoa’s...
Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Sunday, Feb. 19, a thorough investigation into the ambush-slay of Appari, Cagayan Vice Mayor Rommel Alameda in Nueva Vizcaya to determine the motive and eventually lead to the identification of perpetrators. PNP...
The vice mayor of Aparri, Cagayan and five others were killed in an ambush in Sitio Kinacao, Barangay Baretbet, Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya on Sunday morning, Feb. 19. AN ambush victim in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya is taken to a hospital. (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo) Lt. Col. Saturnino Soriano, regional...
