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KORONADAL CITY (Sept. 18/NDBC) – Two security guards were killed, two other
guards and two minors were wounded when six armed men robbed a pawnshop
Thursday noon, police said.

Supt.
Nestor Salcedo, Koronadal City police chief, said the gunmen arrived on three
motorcycles and parked beside the Agencia Brillantes pawnshop along Osmenia
Street, Koronadal City at past 12.

KORONADAL CITY(Sept. 18/NDBC) -- Six armed men barged inside a pawnshop here at past noon today, declared hold-up and shot dead to security guards, radio reports said.Police and witnesses said six men arrived on two separate motorcycles, barged inside Brillantes Pawnshop along Osmenia Street, Koronadal City and declared hold-up at about 12:35 p.m.Police identified the slain Brillantes Pawnshopsecurity guard as Joan Lazaga.

COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 18/NDBC) – Nothing in the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) that is
unconstitutional, speakers of a talkshop series here today said.

Lawyer Al Amin
Julkipli, government peace panel legal counsel Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, MILF
peace panel member Prof. Edmund Tayao, LOGODEF executive director and
political analyst and Lawyer Randolph Parcasio, ARMM consultant were one in
saying that they do not see BBL violating the provisions of the Philippine
Constitution.

COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 18/NDBC) – The talkshop series on the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is now on
going at Tanghalang Michael Clark, Notre Dame University, Cotabato City with more than 200 participants from various sectors.Now discussing
on the issue on political autonomy and Bangsamoro government are Lawyer Al Amin
Julkipli, government peace panel legal counsel Prof. Abhoud Syed Lingga, MILF
peace panel member Prof. Edmund Tayao, LOGODEF executive director and
political analyst and Lawyer Randolph Parcasio, ARMM consultant.

COTABATO
CITY (Sept. 18/NDBC) – The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) will
never attend any consultation or public hearing about the Bangsamoro Basic Law
(BBL), its spokesperson today said.

We
will not participate in any hearing on BBL. Never,” Abu Misry Mama, speaking
for the BIFF, told DXMS Radyo Bida Cotabato.

Mama
said after hearing the news that the House will invite BIFF founding chair
Ustadz Ameril Omra Kato, he phoned Kato for his comment.

MATALAM, North Cotabato (Sept. 18/NDBC) -- TheRural health Unit (RHU) here is searching forthree women who were wives of a mansuspected to have been infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV), a health official said. Dr. Rhemia Guianan, municipal health officer (MHO),said her office isnow coordinating with the Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO)-North Cotabato to locate the whereabouts of three women who she did not identify.

COTABATO CITY
(Sept. 18) – The Department of Interior and Local Government in the Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao (DILG-ARMM) today confirmed the assumption of Vice
Mayor Marop Ampatuan of Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao as the town's acting mayor. The DILG-ARMM
now recognizes Vice Mayor Ampatuan as the acting mayor of Shariff Aguak,” Lawyer
Anwar Malang, DILG-ARMM regional secretary, told DXMS Radyo Bida Cotabato
Thursday morning.

MANILA (Sept. 18/NDBC) -- After typhoon Luis battered eastern part and Northern Luzon, alow pressure area (LPA) sighted east of Visayas while Luis was heading to Chinahas intensified into a tropical depression, PAGASA said on Wednesday morning.In its 5 p.m advisory, PAGASA said the tropical depression, named Mario, was last spotted 740 kilometers east of Borongan, Eastern Samar.Mario was packing maximum winds of 45 kilometers per hour (kph).

MAGUINDANAO (Sept17) --- The vice mayor of Maguindanao's Shariff Aguak town assumed on Tuesday as acting mayor following a long absence from office of the municipal chief executive for still unknown reason.Shariff Aguak, located in the second district of the province, is hometown of the Ampatuans, whose leaders are now undergoing litigation in connection with the infamous Nov.

COTABATO CITY (Sept. 17) --The House Committee on Appropriations approved the proposed P24.299 billion budget of the ARMM for 2015 in a pre-plenary hearing held Tuesday, atthe House of Representatives in Batasan Hills, Quezon City. The ARMM Bureau of Public Information, in a statement said,Rep. Bai Sandra A. Sema of the 1st District of Maguindanao and Cotabato City, one of the committee’s vice-chairpersons, presided over the hearing.Sema lauded Regional Gov.