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COTABATO CITY – Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi on Tuesday convened the City Peace and
Order Council (CPPOC) to design steps that would strengthen security measures
following the series of bombings in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.

I am
requesting our authorities to impose strictly the NO I.D, NO ENTRY policy in
all our checkpoints, Sayadi said during the POC meeting attended by police and
military officials, local officials, private sector and other city elected
officials.

SULTAN KUDARAT --- Local sectors want Malacañang to raise bounties for the three leaders of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, blamed for the unabated bombings in central Mindanao after it emerged in 2010.The leaders of the three BIFF factions --- Imam Karialan, Imam Bongos and Abu Toraife --- are all radical clerics eloquent in espousing hatred for non-Muslims using poverty and neglect by government as talking issues to entice villagers to either join their ranks or support their acts of terror clandestinely.The Police Regional Office-12 and the Army’s 6thInfantry Division have point

Below is the statement of condemnation of His Eminence Orlando Cardinal B. Quevedo, OMI, DD on Isulan bombings.

To
All People of Good Willand

Greetings
of Peace in the Lord!

True
Believers in God have to cry out in outrage at the terrorist bombings in the
town of Isulan, Province of Sultan Kudarat. All religions are religions of
peace.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat - Another victim of the deadly Sunday night internet cafe bomb attack has expired while undergoing medication at a hospital in Gen. Santos City, raising death toll to two, police said today.Supt. Aldrin Gonzales, PRO-12 spokesperson, said Marialynn Luda, 15, died Monday morning. She is the cousin of Jan Mark Luda who died minutes after the 7:28 p.m. blast inside Prince Internet Cafe along Valdez Street, Barangay Kalawag 3.Samuel Luda, Jan Mark's father, told DXOM-AM that Marialynn asked Jan Mark to accompany her in the internet cafe for her school assignments.

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat - Mayor Marites Pallasigue last night ordered suspension of classes in all level all over the town following a bomb explosion inside an internet cafe at 7:25 p.m. Maging mapagmatyag, mapagmasid, be calm and vigilant, she said.As precautionary measure, I delcare the suspension of classes on all levels in all public and private schools...elementary to college.

Photos of the Isulan bomb attack at an internet cafe Sunday night that left a freshman student of Sultan Kudarat State University identified as Jan Mark Palencia Luda, 18.

GEN. SANTOS CITY–- Police authorities in Region 12 today released the computerized
cartographic sketch of the man who set off a powerful improvised bomb in
Isulan, Sultan Kudarat that killed three and wounded 36 others on August 28.

Chief Supt.
Eliseo Tam Rasco, police director for Region 12, presented the CFC during a
news conference Saturday four days after the deadly bomb attack during the town’s
foundation anniversary and Hamungaya festival.

COTABATO CITY –
The whole franchise area of Metro Cotabato Water District will experience low
water pressure to no water at all on Sept. 3 until Sept. 5, the MCWD
announced today.

Erratic water
services will start at about 2 p.m. on Sept. 3, Monday and will last until
midnight of Sept. 5, Wednesday.

The MCWD said
the services will be affected due to preventive maintenance works and the
installation of new water pumping stations.

COTABATO CITY
- The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) through the Aboitiz
Foundation Inc. once again distributed educational assistance to deserving
students from different public high school within its franchise area on August
8 at Cotabato Light Conference Room.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company (Cotabato Light) today announced scheduled power interruptions to take place on Saturday (Sept. 1) and Sunday (Sept. 2).On Saturday, the whole Cotabato Light franchise will experience brownout from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.The 30 minute interruption is to facilitate the temporary transfer of MAGELCO M4 line from Sultan Kudarat to Tacurong Substation and the isolation and Capiton – Pinaring line section due to the scheduled old line replacement.On Sunday, power consumers will experience a 30-minute power interruption from 5 a.m.