TIMRA Reports

COTABATO CITY --- The vice mayor of Tagbina, Surigao del Sur who was reported missing last weekend was found roaming in another town in the province by a police team before dawn Monday.

Tagbina Vice Mayor Antonio Adlao was immediately brought to the police station in Bunawan in Agusan del Sur province which is quite distant from his hometown and, there, provided with food and clothing by the team that rescued him.

His relatives and constituents reported to the police that he went missing on Saturday morning.

COTABATO CITY -- The police have launched an extensive search for the vice mayor of Tagbina town in Surigao del Sur who has been missing since Saturday.

Officials of the Surigao del Sur Provincial Police Office said Monday mayoral candidate and incumbent Vice Mayor Antonio Adlao was last seen by friends and relatives on Saturday morning in his farm in Barangay Malixi in Tagbina.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- The now detained 50-year-old carpenter who sexually molested and killed a five-year-old girl here Saturday has 12 rape cases long pending in different courts.

Edmar Muyco Senador, arrested about three hours after he raped and killed a child in a secluded spot in Barangay Apopong here at about dusk Saturday, readily confessed his brutal offense to police probers.

The parents and siblings of the slain child told reporters they noticed the victim missing before nightfall Saturday.

COTABATO CITY --- Two died while eight others were badly hurt when the pick-truck carrying them turned-turtle in a stretch of a national highway in Naga town in Zamboanga Sibugay Sunday.

The fatalities, Pastra Jain, 47, and the 53-year-old Hashim Antol, were both declared, by attending physicians, as dead on arrival in a hospital where emergency responders rushed them for treatment.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Magkapatid na suspek sa Arakan chopchop murder case nahuli na sa Banate, Sarangani kahapon.

Sa inisyal na pagsiyasat ng Radyo BIDA sa Arakan PNP, ay kinumpirma nito ang balitang nakarating sa Radyo BIDA mula sa isang source.

Nito lang Huwebes ng umaga nang matagpuan ang pugot na katawan ng 38 years old na si Berlie Rama sa kanyang tinutuluyang tahanan na tadtad ng saksak, labas ang lamang loob, habang nawawala ang pribadong parte ng kanyang katawan.

COTABATO CITY --- An attacker killed with a kitchen knife a radio commentator in Bacolod town in Lanao del Norte Thursday.

The cadaver of the 59-year-old Audrey Gaid Estrella of the 101.3 Grace Covenant FM in Bacolod, Lanao del Norte bore 15 stab wounds, one in the throat, indicating the brutality of the attacker.

In an initial report, the Bacolod Municipal Police Station said the victim, a widow, was found by relatives sprawled on the floor of their house in Purok 5 in the town proper of Bacolod.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- The Philippine Coast Guard foiled over the weekend an attempt by three Indonesians to transport 190 fighting cocks from Barangay Bawing here to Tahun, Indonesia.

Personnel of the PCG Station Eastern Sarangani immediately arrested Bura Wangka, 36, Zaidunin Makahiking, 38, and the 28-year-old Manan Bawimbing and seized the game fowl that they were to smuggle out using a small motorized boat.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- A chairperson of a local transport cooperative was hurt in a gun attack today in Barangay Buayan here.

The 64-year-old Larry Barnuevo Villegas of the Rajah Buayan Transport Cooperative, who sustained a bullet wound in the leg, is now in a hospital. He is an official of BAYAN MUNA GenSan.

An initial police report said he was in their frontyard when a man on a motorcycle pulled over and shot him from a distance, hitting him in the leg.

The suspect immediately sped away.

TACURONG CITY --- A man implicated in a number of motorcycle theft cases perished in a shootout with policemen over the weekend in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat, a regional police official said Tuesday.

Brig. Gen. Alexander Tagum, director of the Police Regional Office-12, said Lando Salompong Kalon died from gunshot wounds sustained in a gunfight with policemen in Barangay Didtaras in nearby Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat.

COTABATO CITY – Eight hitchhikers died in a vehicular accident Wednesday in Barangay Dicolom in Baliguian town in Zamboanga del Norte.

The incident was preceded, three days before, in a road mishap in Butuan City that left three van passengers dead and hurt eight others.

The Baliguian municipal police confirmed late Wednesday the death of eight people riding a Bonggo light truck that plunged into a deep side of the highway while on its way to Labason town in the same province to deliver its copra cargo.