COTABATO CITY (PNA) – The mayor here condemned the series of shootings in this city, the latest of which was the ambush of an Army colonel’s vehicle on Sinsuat Ave. on Saturday night, Nov. 12, that left one soldier dead. “We strongly condemn the most recent shooting incident and all the other...
The family of slain hard-hitting journalist, Pervical Mabasa, alias Percy Lapid, appealed to the public to not to be distracted by media statements by Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag, who was tagged as the alleged mastermind in the killing. In a Facebook post, Roy...
TANAUAN CITY, Batangas -- A cockpit arena operator was killed in an ambush perpetrated by unidentified assailants in Barangay Natatas in this city on Thursday evening, Nov. 11. The victim, identified as Joselito de Chavez, 47, a resident of San Jose town, was driving his pick-up vehicle in Barangay...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police have filed murder charges against 10 armed men linked to the Aug. 30 ambush of a Maguindanao del Sur municipal police chief and his driver. THE remains of Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur police chief Lt. Reynaldo Samson (right) arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International...
Gen. Rodolfo Azurin. Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Tuesday, Nov. 8, a manhunt against those responsible for the killing of a police major in Cagayan. Azurin said he had already instructed the local police to conduct an in-depth investigation and follow-up operations...
MATALAM, North Cotabato (PNA) – A police manhunt is under way against a group behind the ambush-slay of a former barangay chairman and his worker in Barangay Kidama here Sunday, August 14. Police Lt. Col. Jingle Parallag, town police chief, identified Monday, August 15, the victims as Felipe Sara...
Suspected communist rebels killed a rookie policeman when they ambushed a group of policemen conducting relief distribution in Gandara town of Samar on Saturday, July 16. Police Brig. Gen. Bernie Banac, director of the Police Regional Office 8, said the policemen were conducting humanitarian...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police and military forces are jointly hunting down two men who ambushed and killed a former field commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao, Wednesday, July 6. Police Lt. Billy Fontanilla, Datu Hoffer police chief, identified the...
BACOLOD CITY -- A barangay councilor survived an ambush in Barangay Laga-an, Calatrava, Negros Occidental on Saturday. A policeman points to some of the fired bullets recovered from the crime scene in Barangay Laga-an, Calatrava, Negros Occidental, where a barangay councilor survived an ambush...
CEBU CITY -- A police official and his wife were wounded after they were ambushed on Sunday night, May 1. Police Lt. Col. Chuck Barandog and his wife, Yvonne, were aboard a pick-up when a motorcycle-riding gunman fired at them along Pope John Paul II Avenue in Barangay Mabolo past 10 p.m. Barandog,...
President Duterte on Monday, March 7, said in jest that members of the New People's Army (NPA) should be invited to the inauguration of government projects as a "retreat from fighting." President Rodrigo Duterte (RTVM Screenshot) Duterte made the remark during his "Talk To The People" public...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), ordered on Wednesday, July 28, an all-out operation against the communist rebels who ambushed a convoy of policemen and health workers in Samar who were supposed to get coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines for the...
