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COTABATO CITY  --- There are netizens actively using social media to help push forward the government’s confidence-building engagements with local communities.

Military officials said Monday among the latest of these engagements was last week’s dispersal of school supplies and feeding of pupils in a public elementary school in Barangay Badak and Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.

TACURONG CITY  – Unidentified gunmen shot dead a former mayoral candidate of Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat on Saturday, police said Sunday.

Lt. Colonel Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police in the Soccsksargen region, said Edgar Lucero was on a motorcycle with his two children on Saturday, heading home from Tacurong City, when the suspects tailed him and shot him dead.

His children, although sustained bruises, were spared by the gunmen.

His family said Lucero had been receiving death threats the past months but ignored them for he has no known enemies.

KIDAPAWAN CITY  – Six persons were killed and four others were injured in separate vehicular crashes that transpired in the towns of Matalam, Makilala and Libungan, all in Cotabato province on a wet and slippery Saturday.

Two were killed on the spot after the tricycle they were riding collided head on with a wayward Toyota Innova in Barangay Kilada, Matalam, North Cotabato at past 11 a.m., Police Major Bryan Placer, Matalam town police chief.

Killed in on the spot were tricycle driver Ahmed Mamadra, his wife Pai and three other unidentified passengers.

COTABATO CITY  – An Army colonel has been named as the new chief of the military-led Joint Task Force Kutawato (JTFK).

Major Gen. Diosdado Carreon, commander of the 6^th Infantry Division, presided over the turnover of command Friday morning at the JTFK headquasrters, PD Hill, Cotabato City where Colonel Joel Abregana replaced Colonel Jose Narciso.

Colonel Narciso was named new commander of the Army’s 601^st Infantry Brigade based in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao.

Abregana is the concurrent Inspector General of the 6^th ID.

TANTANGAN, South Cotabato - Temporaryong inilipat sa ibang Police Station ang 13 pulis ng Tantangan Municipal Police Station, kabilang ang Chief of Police nito na si Capt. Romeo Albano Jr. dahial wala sila sa pwesto nang magsagawa ng surprise inspection ang National Police Commission (Napolcom).

Ayon kay Provincial Director ng South Cotabato Police Colonel Joel B. Limson, ang surprise inspection ay bahagi ito ng internal cleansing sa PNP.

GEN. SANTOS CITY -  Police Regional Office (PRO) 12, under the leadership of PBGEN ELISEO TAM RASCO, Regional Director condemns in the strongest possible terms the recent shooting to death, that took place on Wednesday night, of a media practitioner/commentator namely Eduardo Sanchez Dizon of Brigada-News Kidapawan.

The victim was traversing Quezon Boulevard, Kidapawan City at about past 10 in the evening on his Mitsubishi Mirage when he was shot to death by not yet identified suspects.

COTABATO CITY -- A former member of the Oblate Media community, Eduardo “Ed” Dizon, of an FM station in Kidapawan City, was killed by gunmen Wednesday night in Kidapawan City.

He was on his way home from work when he was attacked by men on motorcycles armed with pistols. He sustained five gunshot wounds in different parts of his body, causing his immediate death. 

COTABATO CITY – The Cotabato City Sangguniang Panglungsod today condemned the freak attack against one of its members.

City Vice Mayor Graham Nasser Dumama, presiding officer of the city’s legislative body, said the attack against Councilor Florante “Popoy” Formento was “unacceptable and unfortunate.”

“It was sad it happened to one of our colleagues, and within the SP premises at that, we condemn this act,” Dumama said.

KIDAPAWAN CITY  – Unidentified gunmen riding tandem on motorbike shot dead a radio station manager here, a day after another station manager was hit by human waste in nearby Cotabato City.

Eduared “Ed” Dizon, manager of Brigada News FM, was driving his white car heading home after work at 10:05 a.m. when shot dead along Maharlika highway here.

Police Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) found five empty shells for cal. 45 pistol near the victim’s car.

Soco members are still at the vicinity as of posting.

COTABATO CITY – A Maguindanao village chair, his wife, village treasurer and watchman were all killed in a midday ambush along a busy street here, police said.

Police Major Esmael Madin, chief of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG-Maguindanao) said Datu Nurodin Mangandian Guiaman, 34, chairperson of Barangay Tuka, Mamasapano, Maguindanao, was the last to expire while undergoing medication in an undisclosed hospital.