Police General Benjamin Acorda Jr., Chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), personally witnessed the mass surrender of 50 combatants of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Thursday, May 11. (PNP Chief Police Gen....
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Mayor Rona Piang-Flores of Upi, Maguindanao del Norte has ordered the indefinite suspension of classes in an elementary school where schoolchildren were downed after accidentally inhaling mists of insecticides on Wednesday, May 10. SCHOOLCHILDREN are treated at the Datu Blah...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – A powerful insecticide sprayed on coconut trees at the back of an elementary school in Barangay Mirab in Upi town, Maguindanao del Norte province was suspected to have poisoned around 75 schoolchildren on Wednesday morning, May 10. Upi Mayor Rona Piang-Flores said the victims...
ILIGAN CITY – Five members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and a member of the Daulah Islamiyah-Turaife Group surrendered and turned over their firearms to the military at the 1st Brigade Combat Team headquarters in Barangay Pigcalagan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao del Norte on Tuesday,...
The newly-created provinces of Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur can expect that there will be greater peace and sustainable economic development for its people, the Department of National Defense (DND) and Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU)...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. ensured that the government is prioritizing the development of the newly created provinces of Maguindanao del Sur and Maguindanao del Norte....
ILIGAN CITY – The police and military seized war materiel belonging to warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front groups in Maguindanao del Sur. The 2nd Mechanized Battalion and 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company conducted a clearing operation in Barangay Elian, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del...
ILIGAN CITY – Combined police and military units apprehended a man wanted for murder and other cases during the implementation of warrant of arrest in Sitio Campo Dos, Barangay Kilangan, Pagalungan, Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday, April 23, 2023. MANAMPAN (Photo via Bonita Ermac) Joint Task Force...
DATU SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – A three-day armed hostilities between two warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) groups in two adjoining barangays here has displaced some 800 families or about 4,000 individuals, local officials said on Monday, April 24. At least eight rebels...
COTABATO CITY – Police created on Wednesday a special body to probe the murder of Datu Salibo town, Maguindanao del Sur province Councilor Demson Dagloc Silongan on Monday, April 17. Police Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) police director, said he...
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – A Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco) official was killed in an ambush by still unidentified gunmen on the diversion road here at past 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19. Police Major Reggie Albellera, municipal police station chief, identified...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – A still unidentified gunman shot dead a municipal councilor in Datu Salibo town, Maguindanao del Sur province while on his way to the Sangguniang Bayan session hall around 9 a.m. on Monday, April 17. SILONGAN Police Major Roldan Kuntong, Datu Salibo municipal police station...