ZAMBOANGA CITY – Four high-risk prisoners were transferred to Metro Manila after authorities uncovered a plot by the Abu Sayyaf Group to rescued their comrades incarcerated at the San Ramon Penal Colony here. Bureau of Corrections officials immediately secured all the prisoners after...
Two more dead people were retrieved by the Philippine Inter-Agency Humanitarian Contingent (PIAHC) as their search, rescue, and retrieval (SRR) operations continued in the earthquake-battered Turkiye, the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) disclosed Wednesday, Feb. 15. Members of the urban search and...
ZAMBOANGA CITY – A passenger cargo vessel rescued five persons from a motor banca that capsized in the sea of Basilan on Valentine’s Day. PASSENGERS of a capsized motor banca disembark from a passenger cargo vessel that rescued them at the Basilan Strait on Tuesday, Feb. 14. (PCG photo) The...
BUTUAN CITY (PNA) – Personnel of the Philippine Coast Guard in Northeastern Mindanao (PCG-NEM) and the Coast Guard Station in Dinagat Islands (CGS Dinagat) rescued on Sunday, Feb. 12, a distressed cargo vessel in the sea of Hibusong Island in Dinagat Islands province. COAST Guard personnel...
As hope for finding survivor diminishes, the Philippine government decided that it will no longer send a second batch of search and rescue (SAR) responders to Turkiye a week after it was devastated by a powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Assistant Secretary...
The Philippine Embassy in Turkiye on Sunday, Feb. 12, said it has tapped search-and-rescue teams in Hatay City in looking for a Filipina and her children, who are all believed to still be under the rubble of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked the country’s southeastern region. Filipino...
Five days after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Turkiye and Syria, the Philippine inter-agency response team deployed to Ankara conducted a “hasty search” operation on Saturday, Feb. 11, to find survivors beneath the rubbles of collapsed buildings. Photo: Office of Civil Defense / OCD Hasty...
Authorities have yet to find the Cessna light plane two weeks after it went missing after leaving the Cauayan City Airport for Maconacon, Isabela on Tuesday, Jan. 24. TROOPS have yet to find the missing Cessna plane more than two weeks after it went missing in Isabela. (Photo via Liezle Basa-Inigo)...
The inter-agency response team deployed by the Philippine government to Turkiye officially commenced Friday, Feb. 10, its search for survivors in the southern province of Adiyaman in the aftermath of the devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has since killed 21,000 individuals. The Philippine...
This handout photograph made available by the FDFA's Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) on February 9, 2023, shows members of the Swiss rescue team discussing the situation following a massive earthquake on February 6, in Antakya, in Hatay province on February 8, 2023. Rescue...
Search operations continue two weeks after a Cessna plane went missing in Isabela province, an official of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) bared on Tuesday, Feb. 7. "The search started last Jan. 24. Until now, we haven't found it," CAAP Deputy Director General Edgardo Diaz...
Rescuers recovered the bodies of two teenage boys who allegedly drowned in a river in Sitio Bakal, Barangay Bagong Silangan, Quezon City on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) said the rescuers responded to the area at around 12:32 p.m. after receiving a report that two minors,...
