Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Raphael Lotilla (left) and lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman (Facebook) Deputy Minority Leader and Basilan lone district Rep. Mujiv Hataman has reiterated his call for a House probe on the power crisis in his province, which is being plagued by frequent...
ILIGAN CITY – Two wives of an Abu Sayyaf Group sub-leader and the 20-year-old widow of an ASG member were apprehended in a joint law enforcement operation on Thursday evening, June 15, in Basilan. Joint Task Force Basilan acting commander Col. Frederick Sales identified them as Marilyn Lasigan...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was killed in a clash with police in the hinterlands of Basilan province, police said on Wednesday, June 14. Police Col. Carlos Madronio, Basilan police director, said Nurudin Muddalan was slain in a gunfight around 10 p.m. on Tuesday,...
ILIGAN CITY – Two members of the Abu Sayyaf Group were killed in an encounter in Sumisip, Basilan on Tuesday, June 6. Joint Task Force Basilan acting commander Col. Frederick Sales identified them as “Dodong,” a member of the Sulu-based Daulah Islamiyah-ASG under sub-leader Mudzrimar...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – The suspect in the shooting of a Basilan-based policeman was arrested on Saturday, April 15, in Lamitan City, Basilan. The suspect was identified as Said Anjalin, who was reportedly arrested inside the house of a certain Walid Abyarol in Pamaran Village in Barangay Malinis....
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A police corporal was wounded when armed men attacked a newly constructed police outpost in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan on Wednesday, April 12. POLICE Corporal Nasser Hain is treated for a bullet wound at the Lamitan District Hospital in Basilan. (Photo via Liza Jocson) A report from...
Three more passengers of the fire-hit MV Lady Mary Joy 3, including a Philippine Army (PA) personnel, were finally found by search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) teams a week after the deadly sea blaze off Basilan that has now killed 31 people, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) reported on Holy...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – Search operations continue off an island in Basilan and nearby areas as 23 passengers of the ill-fated M/V Mary Joy 3 remain missing, officials said Tuesday, April 4. Nixon Alonzo, Basilan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office chief, said they managed to...
Search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations were ongoing to find the 24 persons who remained unaccounted for when a fire struck passenger-cargo vessel MV Lady Mary Joy 3 while sailing off Baluk-Baluk Island in Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan last March 30. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Sunday,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – The search and retrieval operations on the wreckage of the ill-fated M/V Lady Mary Joy 3 in the waters off Baluk-Baluk Island, Hadji Muhtamad, Basilan, ended on Saturday, April 1. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and Basilan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and...
The number of people who perished due to a fire at passenger-cargo vessel MV Lady Mary Joy 3 reached 29 while search and rescue operations and coastal patrol continued in the vicinity waters off Basilan to find seven others who were still missing, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Friday, March...
At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in Basilan, authorities said Thursday, March 30. The Lady Mary Joy 3 was travelling from Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island to Jolo, Sulu when the fire broke out late Wednesday, March 29, prompting passengers to jump...
