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COTABATO CITY – Fire fighter prevented today the spread of a
grass fire that hit the back portion of a gasoline station along Quezon Avenue,
the Bureau of Fire Protection today said.

Fire Officer James Ra, speaking for BFP-Cotabato City, said had
it not for the timely arrival of fire fighters the grass fire could have
reached nearby gasoline station.

The grass fire started at 2 p.m. at a vacant lot loaded with
garbage and dried grass.

He said the fire wall helped prevent the fire from spreading
toward the gasoline outlet.

SHARIFF AGUAK,
Maguindanao —- Military bomb experts today foiled a bombing attempt by
still unidentified man at a bus terminal here Thursday afternoon.

This after a
civilian alerted authorities about a suspicious bag left unattended at the bus
terminal situated at the town’s public market, according

Col. Lito
Sobejana, commander of the 601st Brigade said.

Sobejano said
the improvised bomb was so powerful and could have killed and maimbed innocent
civilians had it not been foiled.

KORONADAL CITY -- A Korean-American national was arrested in Gen. Santos City early Thursday morning by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Central Mindanao, PDEA-12 official said today. PDEA-12 Regional Director Lyndon Aspacio identified the suspect as Hyun Seong Hong, businessman and a resident of 2710 Park Way Irvine, California, USA. Aspacio said anti-narcotics agents raided a hotel where Hyun had just checked in. He did not resist arrest. Aspacio said Hyun who married a Filipina and operates a food business in the city was a PDEA value target.

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MAMASAPANO,
Maguindanao – A day before the first year anniversary of the so
called Mamasapano disaster, Army Major Gen. Edmundo Pangilinan led a simple yet
meaningful inter-faith prayer in Barangay Tukanalipao here Sunday.

The solemn
inter-religious prayer was attended by tri-people representatives to remember
the lives lost of elite police force, Moro rebels and non-combatants and held
in an open field, that one year ago, was a mute witness to the bloody carnage.

MARAWI CITY -- Officials on Friday urged the Philippine Air Force (PAF) to immediately monitor a big fire ravaging since Thursday vast swaths of tropical rainforests in watershed areas in Lanao del Sur province.Vice Gov. Haroun Al-Rashid Lucman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Friday said the fire in the densely forested mountain ranges somewhere in Butig town was noticed clearly Thursday night from certain villages along the Lake Lanao. Photos snapped via mobile phones were forwarded to me by constituents in Marawi City and in Lanao del Sur,” he said.

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HEADLINESand

1. SAMPUNG BAHAY, naabo sa
panibagong insidente ng sunog sa Cotabato city.

2. Anti-Rat campaign sa Kabacan, North
Cotabato sinimulan na mga magsasakang makakahuli ng 500 mga daga, bibigyan ng
isang sakong bigas.

3. PITONG mga kawani ng DOLE 12,
pinarangalan ng Civil Service Commission

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MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao – The sound of silence was deafening on Monday when this writer visited the place. The area, that claimed the lives of 66 persons generally, remains the same, a quiet shallow river, huge dry fields that easily soften and turned muddy riverside in a 30-minute moderate rain. This is Barangay Tukanalipao, with the river and the vast corn fields as silent witnesses to the bloody January 25 carnage that left elite police unit, Moro rebels and civilians dead. A mission was accomplished, that was to put the country’s most wanted foreign terrorist, at the cost of 66 lives.