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KORONADAL CITY
– Teachers on board a passenger van plying to Tacurong City from this city
survived assassin’s bullets but not a pregnant mother seated beside the driver’s seat.

Mary Grace Boteng Rivera, 28, of Barangay Zone 4, a five-month pregnant and wife of van driver
Omar Ampatuan, was hit on her shoulder and is now out of danger.

Ampatuan said
he was to pick-up passengers near Caltex Gas Station along GenSan drive when he
noticed to men riding tandem on board a Bajaj motorbike.

BANGA, South Cotabato - At least 31 homes were damaged by what the locals believed was a tornado that hit the village of Cabudian on Saturday, officials said.Three puroks (districts) of Barangay Cabudian were affected, according to Village Chair Jonathan Ladot.Seventeen of the homes were in Purok Masinulondon, 11 in Purok Malipayon and three in Purok Mahigugmaon. Four houses were totally destroyed when trees fell on them.Local officials estimated the cost of damages at P100,000. Trees were uprooted due to strong winds that struck Saturday afternoon.Nobody was reported injured.

MAGUINDANAO --- Authorities foiled on midnight Sunday an attempt to bomb the premises of the Datu Odin Sinsuat municipal police office using an improvised explosive device rigged on a motorcycle.Chief Supt.

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GNE. SANTOS CITY -- A smoke emanated from a generator compartment of KCC Mall of GenSan triggered evacuation of mall goers at past 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018.Only smoke were seen billowing up from a generator located at the third floor, particularly near the comfort room.The KCC fire trucks and Gen. Santos City Fire fighters responded just in time.Witnesses said the shoppers left the mall in an orderly manner and nobody panicked. The guards guided the shoppers which route to take going outside the mall.No casualty or injury was reported.Normal operations resume about an hour later.

KORONADAL CITY – Anti-drug police units arrested Saturday a village chairperson
during law enforcement operation in Kiamba, Saranggani, police said.

Supt. Aldrin
Gonzales, spokesperson for police in Region 12, identified the village official
in police drug watch list as Latip Mingkat, village chair of Barangay Tambili,
Kiamba, Sarangani.

COTABATO CITY - A magnitude 6.4 rocked Davao region and eastern Mindanao Saturday afternoon, the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology Office (Phivolcs) reported today.Tectonic in origin, the 3:16 p.m. tremor was traced 27 kilometers east of Manay, Davao Oriental.No reported casualty or damages to properties as of posting.The recorded intensities are as follows, according to Phivolcs.Intensity V - Davao City Mati City, Davao OrientalIntensity IV - Koronadal City Bislig CityIntensity III - Tupi, South Cotabato Alabel, and Malapatan, SaranganiIntensity II - Cotabato City Gen.

KORONADAL CITY – Police authorities here arrested Saturday morning a woman who was
facing kidnapping and illegal detention charges in Tacurong City.Armed with a search warrant, joint elements of Tacurong City and Koronadal City police office offices served the warrant against Maria Malaya FernandezSupt. Benjiel Kirby Bajo,
Koronadal City police director, told Radyo Bida Koronadal that police, armed with an arrest warrant, found
Maria Malaya Fernandez in her boarding house at 8:40 a.m. in Barangay Gen.
Paulino Santos this city.

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KORONADAL CITY - Following the twin bomb attacks in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, the city government of Koronadal has temporarily closed for security reasons.Judith Labial Amido, Koronadal City Economic Enterprise Development officer, said the decision was to ensure the safety of everyone.Amido explained that the decision was temporary.At night, people from all walks of life regularly troop to the night market of used clothing at the back of the old city hall, near the city's public market.