COTABATO CITY – Three Moro fighters were killed and three others were wounded after warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions clashed in Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Maguindanao del Sur, police said Monday. The encounter on Sunday morning involved the groups of commanders Malibuteng and...
SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao del Sur – A massive manhunt is underway for assailants who ambushed and killed a municipal engineer, which also wounded another person here Wednesday night, police reported Thursday. Engineer Shed Ariff Malang, municipal engineer of adjacent Shariff Saydona Mustapha...
RAJAH BUAYAN, Maguindanao del Sur – Two warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) factions here reached a peaceful resolution to their misunderstanding and clan conflict on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Edgar L. Catu, commander of the 601st Infantry Brigade, facilitated the “reunion” of Teng Mamo...
COTABATO CITY – Police Col. Sultan Salman Sapal assumed as the new director of the Maguindanao del Sur Police Provincial Office on Tuesday. Sapal replaced Police Col. Ryan Bobby Paloma. Police Col. Giusseppe Geraldo, representing Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region Director...
COTABATO CITY – Authorities arrested a suspected member of the Dawlah Islamiyah (DI) local terror group in an operation carried out in Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday afternoon. In a report Thursday, Police Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous...
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Soldiers reported Monday the killing of two suspected local terrorists, believed to be behind recent atrocities against civilians and soldiers in Maguindanao del Sur. The two slain terrorists were identified as Dawlah Islamiyah (DI)-Hassan Group members...
COTABATO CITY – A school district supervisor in Maguindanao del Sur who was shot and critically wounded by an assailant on Tuesday afternoon died on Wednesday morning, police said. Capt. Argie Eyana, police chief of Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur, said Dr. Alamansa Ambiton, a district...
An elementary school principal was shot and wounded in Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao del Sur on Tuesday morning. Police identified the victim as Alamansa Ambiton, principal of the Sapakan Central Elementary School. Investigation said the victim was on his way to each lunch in a store outside the...
DAVAO CITY – The province of Maguindanao del Sur has sustained P121 million in damage to agriculture from the massive flooding that has destroyed over 6,000 hectares of agricultural land, the Bangsamoro Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim...
The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) transported thousands of relief packages to victims of severe flooding in Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday, May 25. OCD Administrator Usec. Ariel Nepomuceno and PCSO General Manager Mel Robles supervised the loading of...
DAVAO CITY – Three towns in Maguindanao del Sur have been placed under state of calamity due to massive flooding that has affected at least 300,000 individuals. A report from the Bangsamoro Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao said...
DAVAO CITY – Over 100 barangays in the province of Maguindanao del Sur are still flooded after almost a week of torrential rains due to the combined effects of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and low-pressure area, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said. As of 5 p.m....