Four teenagers who are suspected members of the militant group Daulah Islamiyah (DI) have been apprehended by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Marugong, Lanao del Sur, the military revealed on Saturday, May 27. (Courtesy of Western Mindanao Command, AFP) Maj. Andrew Linao, chief of...
ILIGAN CITY – One of the suspects in the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr.’s convoy was arrested by joint elements of the Philippine National Police and Philippine Army on Thursday, May 25. BARATOMO (103rd Infantry (Haribon) Brigade, PA photo) The suspect, identified as Lomala...
ILIGAN CITY – The military recovered a machinegun following a short gun battle with the Daulah Islamiyah-Lanao (DI-Lanao) in Pualas, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday afternoon, May 2. The 51st Infantry Battalion received a report that DI-Lanao leader Abu Zacariah was traveling onboard a white Mitsubishi...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – Government forces killed during an operation on Wednesday, May 3, the alleged mastermind in the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. last Feb. 17. Police Col. Robert Daculan, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said private armed...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao Norte (PNA) – Heavily armed men traded gunshots in the middle of the densely populated town center of Malabang, Lanao del Sur on Tuesday night, May 2, leaving a cop and three civilians injured. Police Capt. Jerome Baliuag, deputy chief of the Malabang Municipal Police...
CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – Lanao del Sur police killed three alleged members of the Dawlah Islamiyah and arrested seven others during a predawn law enforcement operation in Bubong town on Sunday, April 2. Brig. Gen. Allan Cruz Nobleza, newly installed director of the Police...
ZAMBOANGA CITY (PNA) – A fifth suspect in the Feb. 17 ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr. was killed in a shootout with authorities, police said on Thursday, March 30. The wife of the group’s leader allegedly involved in the ambush was also captured during the clash that...
COTABATO CITY (PNA) – Police and Marine field units are hot on the trail of suspects behind the weekend ambush in Marogong town, Lanao del Sur province that killed a Marine sergeant and injured three others. “We have identified the suspects and a joint police and Marine manhunt operation is...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) created to probe the ambush of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal "Bombit" Alonto Adiong Jr. on Friday, Feb. 17, in Maguing, Lanao del Sur is moving forward with its investigation. LANAO del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr. (left) with...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Lanao del Sur chapter and Marawi City Mayor Majul Gandamra condemned the ambush by unidentified gunmen of Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr. on Friday, Feb. 17, in the remote Sitio Landslide, Barangay Dilimbayan, Maguing,...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The authorities are welcoming all the possible angles to identify the real motive on the ambush of Lanao del Sur governor Mamintal Adiong Jr along the provincial road of Barangay Bato Bato, in Maguing town on Friday, Feb. 17. Adiong was wounded in the incident perpetrated by...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has declared a gun ban in two provinces and 63 barangays in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) following an ambush on Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Alonto Adiong Jr on Friday, Feb. 17, that left four people, three of them policemen, dead....
