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COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato Light and Power Company today said the NGCP scheduled power service interruption for April 28, 2024 has been cancelled. 

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Nasawi ang pinakamataas na lider ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters – Karialan Faction kasama ang 11 tagasunod nito sa ikinasang military operations sa Brgy. Kitango, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del Sur, kaninang umaga (April 22, 2024).

Kinilala ni Brig. Gen. Jose Vladimir Cagara, ang Commander ng 1st Brigade Combat Team ang nasawi na si Mohiden Animbang alias Karialan, Chairman ng BIFF-KF; Saga Animbang, operation chief ng BIFF-KF na kapatid ni Mohiden, ang pinuno ng grupo.

BONGAO, Tawi-Tawi - Prompt response by combined forces from 1st SOU Maritime Group (lead unit), 1st Tawi Tawi PMFC, Sea Marshall Unit-SWM, Coast Guard Central Station Tawi-Tawi together with PCTC-WMPO, NICA BARMM in coordination with LGU-LCAT VAWC of Municipal Inter-Agency Committee Against Trafficking (MIACAT) Bongao, has led to the rescue of 13 individuals, at Bongao Port, Brgy. Poblacion, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, at about 6:45 AM of April 19, 2024.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - The Cotabato Electric Cooperative (Cotelco) today announced the scheduled power interruption on Friday, April 12, affecting this city and Pres. Roxas and Matalam area.

This is to inform you that we will have a SCHEDULED power interruption on the following scheduled date and affected area, to wit:

April 12, 2024 (Friday) - 4 hours

Power Off- 8:00 AM Power On- 12:00NN

Reason:

Massive replacement of pin type insulators.

Affected Area:

Kidapawan Area:

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao Norte - Six  high-powered firearms and war paraphernalia were recovered and seized by the Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station, 1st Platoon of the 62nd Division Reconnaissance Company, and 2nd Manauever Platoon, 1st Provincial Mobile Force Company in a joint area security and reconnaissance patrol at Sitio Kabatayan, Barangay Labungan, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte on April 6, 2024.

MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has declared April 10 a regular holiday throughout the country in observance of Eid’l Fitr, or the culmination of the fasting month of Ramadan for Muslims.

In his Proclamation 514, Marcos said the declaration of April 10 as a regular holiday aims to “bring the religious and cultural significance of Eid’l Fitr to the fore of national consciousness.”

The President added that declaring Eid’l Fitr a holiday will “allow the entire Filipino nation to join their Muslim brothers and sisters in peace and harmony.”

CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao Norte - Police Brig. Gen. Prexy Dugas Tanggawohn was installed as new police regional director for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muilim Mindanao (BARMM), replacing Brig. Gen. Allan Nobleza.

Tanggawohn is the 30th police regional director for BARMM.  

KIDAPAWAN CITY – At least 17 people were burned to death in a highway mishap when a cargo truck rammed a passenger van along the national highway in Antipas, Cotabato at about noon Monday.

Major Godofredo Tupas II, Antipas municipal police station chief, said the accident occurred in Purok 2, Barangay Luhong, Antipas at past 12:30 that left all the passengers of the Toyota Hi-Ace van burned to death.

DATU HOFFER, Maguindanao del Sur —  Four soldiers were killed here after they were ambushed by suspected Dawlah Islamiya Sunday morning, the military here said.

Three of the fatalities members of the 40th Infantry Battalion (IB) and a member of 3rd Army Cavalry under the 601st Infantry Brigade.

They were ambushed at 9 a.m. along the village of Tuayan 1 in Datu Hoffer town in Maguindanao del Sur, according to Brig. General Oriel Pangcog, 601st Infantry Brigade commander.

A Catholic bishop has reservations about the Philippine police move to allow civilians to own semi-automatic rifles.

Bishop Oscar Jaime Florencio of the military diocese said he is personally against allowing civilians to possess rifles, or any firearms for that matter.

“Why will we need those guns? Give them to authorities. If civilians are allowed to have guns, it might cause another big problem,” Florencio said over Radio Veritas.

The bishop cited the situation in the United States as an example, where mass shooting incidents are on the rise.