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MANILA (Sept. 14/NDBC) - Mindanao weather bulletin issued as of 4 a.m. Sunday.SYNOPSISandAt 4and00 AM today, Typhoon LUIS” was located based on all available data at 266km North Northeast of Virac, Catanduanes or at 347 km East Southeast of Casiguran, Aurora (13.7ºN, 129.2ºE) with maximum winds of 120 kph andamp gustines up to 150 kph. It is forecast to move West Northwest at 20 kph.FORECASTandMindanao will be partly cloudy to cloudy with isolated rain showers or thunderstorms.

MARAWI CITY (Sept.
13/NDBC) – The reforms in the Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative (LASURECO)
management and operation are gaining headway, a month into the creation of the
LASURECO Task Force.

Created on
August 8, the Task Force yielded renewed confidence from stakeholders,
especially the Ulama” (Muslim religious leaders) and media in its mission of
re-energizing Lanao del Sur province.

KIDAPAWAN CITY
(Sep 13/NDBC) – At least 625 families from flooded areas here were given immediate
relief assistance by the city government.

On Friday, City social welfare officer
Lorna Morales led the food relief to flood victims.

Morales said they also distributed
kitchen utensils to families whose houses were totally damaged by heavy
flooding that started Thursday.

MANILA, Sept. 13 (PNA)-- At least four areas in Northern Luzon are now under public storm warning signal No. 1 as tropical storm (TS) Luis which has maintained its strength now threatens Luzon area, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Saturday.PAGASA weather forecaster Alvin Pura told the Philippines News Agency (PNA) that Isabela, southern part of Cagayan, northern Aurora and Catanduanes are now under public storm warning signal No. 1 as winds of 30-60 kph is expected in at least 36 hours.

PARANG, Maguindanao (Sept. 13/NDBC) - A freak tornado hitthe coastal area of Parang, Maguindanao Friday afternoon and caught residents vendors by surprise, disaster agencysaid today.The Office of Civil Defense of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OCD-ARMM), said the freak tornado smashed the coastal area of Barangay Magsaysay (Talipapa site), Parang, Maguindanao at 3:30 p.m. while moderate rains coupled with thunder storm and lightning.No casualty was reported.OCD-ARMM said more report to follow.

KIDAPAWAN
CITY (Sept. 13/NDBC) - A sales agent died while two other men were injured when
their motorcycles collided along the national highway Barangay Saguing,
Makilala, North Cotabato, Friday night.

KIDAPAWAN CITY (Sept. 13/NDBC) –
Disaster officials here said the flash floods that hit this city’s eight
villages was due to heavy amount of rainfall Thursday night.

We are convinced the amount of
rain was the real cause of the overflowing of Nuangan river,” Psalmer Bernalte,
city disaster officer, told DXND Radyo Bida Kidapawan in Filipino.

Bernalte explained that the amount
of rainfall on Thursday night in the city reached 40 mm per hour per rain gauge
of the city disaster office.

That was extra strong rain,” he
said.

COTABATO
CITY (Sept. 13/NDBC) – Disaster officials in the city remained on alert as
rains continue up stream of Rio Grand de Mindanao and in the provinces of North
and South Cotabato.

Cynthia
Guiani-Sayadi, Cotabato City administrator, said the City Disaster Risk Reduction
and Management Council (CDRRMC) and personnel from the city social welfare
office are working 24/7.
We are not
letting our guards down, anytime water level of the city’s tributaries might
rise again, we must be prepared,” she told DXMS Radyo Bida-Cotabato.

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MAGUINDANAO (Sept 12/NDBC) - Anti-narcotics agents on Wednesday detained a 40-year-old a Moro woman for possession of P1.8 million-worth of illegal Methamphetamine Hydrochloride, anti-narcotics agents said today.The suspect, Aisa Mamasainged, is now undergoing interrogation at the regional office in Cotabato City of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.PDEA agents raided the house of Mamasainged in Capiton District in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao on Wednesday and found the drugs, commonly called Shabu, in one of its rooms.The raid was c