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KIDAPAWAN CITY - Dead on the spot ang isang pastor matapos na pagbabarilin ng di pa kilalang mga suspek sa Purok 5, Barangay Magsaysay, Antipas North Cotabato alas 7:15 kanina.

Kinilala ang nasawi na si Ernesto Javier Estrella, 51 years old, may asawa, Pastor ng UCCP Antipas at residente ng Purok 6, Barangay Malatab ng bayan.

KIDAPAWAN CITY  – Police arrested in Mlang, North Cotabato a lady public school teacher wanted by law for violating Republic Act 7610 or an act against child abuse and exploitation.

Citing report from Mlang Municipal Police Office, Colonel Maximo Layugan, North Cotabato police provincial director, identified the teacher as Gerlie Lumbay Villagonzalo, 38, a resident of Purok 1, Barnagay Calunasan, Mlang, North Cotabato.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- The fire that hit a residential home along Quezon Boulevard here MOnday night triggered about 20 hour service interruption of interner services in parts of North Cotabato, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao and parts of Sultan Kudarat, the Philippine Long Distasnce Telephpne (PLDT) announced today. 

The PLDT said these areas experienced degradation or loss of internet, data, voice, and SMS services "after a fire in Kidapawan City caused a break in our fiber optic transmission cables serving the said areas."

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A fire of still unknown origin razed to the ground an ancestral home along Quezon Boulevarad here, particularly near Nuangan River Monday night.

The Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) had to shut down Feeder 44 that cuts power mostly in the city center to prevent the 7 p.m. fire from spreading.

Arson investigation continues.

NORTH COTABATO --- The provincial government on Monday urged authorities to stop the narcotics trade in North Cotabato that topped in arrests of traffickers from among Region 12 provinces in recent months.

No fewer than 10 of the shabu dealers arrested in the past two years in North Cotabato, covering 17 towns and more than 40 barangays in its capital, Kidapawan City, have links with the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and reportedly even shared earnings to the group.

COTABATO CITY  – The Police Regional Office in in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PRO-BARMM) strongly believed education is the best instrument for human and community development.

It is the only police regional office that operates and maintains a kindergarten school inside its camp.

On Sunday, Police Brig. Gen. Marni Marcos Jr, police director for PRO-BARMM, led the blessing and inauguration of newly constructed PRO-BARMM kindergarten playground.

NORTH COTABATO --- No fewer than 8,000 people in this province and its capital, Kidapawan City, became jobless with Saturday’s shutdown of lottery outlets as ordered by Malacañang.

President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the crackdown late Friday, citing as reasons corruption, mishandling of lottery revenues and other anomalies.

Station dxND in Kidapawan City said on Facebook that some 8,000 people working for Lotto and Small Town Lottery outlets have been rendered jobless by the police’s enforcement of Duterte’s order.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company has scheduled a power service interruption for some areas in Barangays Tamontaka 1 to 5 on Saturday, July 27 from 8 a.m. to 12 noon.

KIDAPAWAN CITY  – North Cotabato Gov. Nancy Catamco today vowed to intensify drive against illegal drugs and the personalities behind it in the province.

She issued the statement after being told by officials of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), led by Director Naravy Duquiatan, that North Cotabato was the leading province in the region to have highest number of suspected drug users and with most seized illegal drugs.

Duquiatan did not give statistics, though.

“Illegal drugs have no place in North Cotabato province,” Catamco stressed.

KORONADAL CITY - Scheduled power interruption affecting the ENTIRE SOCOTECO-I Coverage Area on July 27, 2019 (Saturday) 8:00AM-5:00PM.

Purpose: Interconnection of the newly constructed 69 kV Sub transmission Line (Double Circuit), line clearing, pole replacement & PMS.

Socoteco said outage time may change without prior notice "but we will exert all efforts to restore power as soon as possible."