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MARAWI CITY -- Officials on Friday urged the Philippine Air Force (PAF) to immediately monitor a big fire ravaging since Thursday vast swaths of tropical rainforests in watershed areas in Lanao del Sur province.Vice Gov. Haroun Al-Rashid Lucman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) on Friday said the fire in the densely forested mountain ranges somewhere in Butig town was noticed clearly Thursday night from certain villages along the Lake Lanao. Photos snapped via mobile phones were forwarded to me by constituents in Marawi City and in Lanao del Sur,” he said.

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JANUARY 21,
2016 (THURSDAY)
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1. SAMPUNG BAHAY, naabo sa
panibagong insidente ng sunog sa Cotabato city.

2. Anti-Rat campaign sa Kabacan, North
Cotabato sinimulan na mga magsasakang makakahuli ng 500 mga daga, bibigyan ng
isang sakong bigas.

3. PITONG mga kawani ng DOLE 12,
pinarangalan ng Civil Service Commission

KORONADAL CITY - Soft drinks literally flooded a national highway in Sto Nino, South Cotabato on Wednesday after an Elf truck hit a roadside tree and turned on its side. sand//scontent-hkg3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t34.0-12/12573145_603296469822471_2186673496301435443_n.jpg?oh=86993159e3f4adc8286abb681355bdc8andampoe=56A2B34D Police reported that two persons, a driver and his helper, were hurt in the accident that transpired in Sitio Bagong Silang, Barangay Ambalgan.Eliseo Sumabong, a resident of Barangay Ambalgan, witnessed the accident.

MAMASAPANO, Maguindanao – The sound of silence was deafening on Monday when this writer visited the place. The area, that claimed the lives of 66 persons generally, remains the same, a quiet shallow river, huge dry fields that easily soften and turned muddy riverside in a 30-minute moderate rain. This is Barangay Tukanalipao, with the river and the vast corn fields as silent witnesses to the bloody January 25 carnage that left elite police unit, Moro rebels and civilians dead. A mission was accomplished, that was to put the country’s most wanted foreign terrorist, at the cost of 66 lives.

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MANILA -- A Mindanao lawmaker has proposed to declare January 25 of every year as a National Day of Mourning in memory of the 44 brave and gallant members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) who died in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last year.Rep. Zajid G. Mangudadatu (2nd District, Maguindanao) raised the proposal through House Bill 6320, saying the nation should dedicate Jan. 25 every year to remember the 44 brave and heroic members of the Philippine National Police-SAF who died in Mamasapano.

ALEOSAN, North Cotabato – Unidentified
men bombed another transmission tower of the National Grid Corporation (NGCP)
in Aleosan, North Cotabato Thursday night but the steel tower was not toppled,
police said.

The two improvised explosive devices
that went off at 11:58 p.m. damaged two legs of NGCP Tower No. 63, according to
Senior Inspector Jun J. Napat, Aleosan town police chief.

The tower remained standing, the
blasts only damaged two of its four feet,” Napat said.

The incident also did not trigger
outage,” he added.

KORONADAL CITY –-
Police hauled Thursday night five persons, including an ex-police officer,allegedly engaged in illegal drug activities
during a buy bust operations in Barangay Gen. Paulino Santos here, police said.Newly installed city police director,
Supt. Barney Condes and Dr. Glorio Sandig, action officer of Koronadal City anti-drug
abuse council, led the operation at past 10 p.m. in Purok Ycon. A police asset served as poseur buyer confirmed the existence of prohibited drugs that led to the operation.
Condes identified the

KORONADAL
CITY – Police authorities here have arrested over the weekend three
men long wanted by law for a string of robbery cases in South Cotabato, police
said.
Senior
Inspector Timonthy Arciso, chief of Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT)
in South Cotabato, identified the suspects as Hernito Tuan Ungkal, 50 Robin
Fann Maan, 60, and Archie Sulan, all residents of Barangay Tubi-Allah,
Surallah, South Cotabato. Arciso
said Ungkal was the leader of Buroy robbery group responsible in the series of big

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Police operatives here have arrested an 18-year-old boy for carrying an unlicensed firearm as police and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) commenced the implementation of election gun ban.DXND-AM Radyo Bida reported that police officers manning checkpoints along a highway in Kidapawan City and conducting Oplan Sleepless Nights flagged down Dan Monteverde Pounes of Barangay Bagumbayan, Tulunan, North Cotabato.Upon inspection, a cal. 45 pistol with four bullets was seized from him.