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...
Ten suspected members of the Dawlah Islamiya–Maute Group were killed in a pre-dawn encounter that lasted for eight gruelling hours with government forces in Marantao, Lanao del Sur on Friday, April 17, including two of the group’s top leaders, police said. Operatives from the Criminal...
Gen. Jose Melencio C. Nartatez, Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered aggressive manhut against those responsible in another case of ambush, this time in Lanao del Sur, that left a police officer and his companion dead. Nartatez said both the incident in Maguindanao del Sur...
COTABATO CITY – Acting on a tip, police recovered several unattended boxes of imported cigarettes, estimated to be worth P12.8 million, on the coastline of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Thursday. Police Col. Caezar Cabuhat, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said in a statement on Friday that...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Officials from Lanao del Sur and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) are calling for immediate justice for the family recently killed in Cagayan province. On Tuesday, Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. called for a resolution for the death of Salic Amerol,...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Government troops recovered 295 grenades from an arms cache believed to be hidden by remnants of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group (DI-MG) in the hinterlands of Lanao del Sur, the military said Thursday. Major Gen. Yegor Rey Barroquillo Jr., 1st Infantry Division commander, said...
COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested two businessmen on Monday and confiscated over P20.7-million worth of suspected shabu in Picong, Lanao del Sur, police said Tuesday. In a report, Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR),...
