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KIDAPAWAN CITY - Police authorities in Pikit, North Cotabato believed the murder Thursday of a village chair was triggered by long standing rido (family feud) involving the victim and his attackers.Senior Inspector Sindatu Karim, Pikit police chief, investigators had initially believed that family feud was believed behind the killing of Chairperson Dhats Simon of Barangay Bulol, Pikit and his escort-relative Akmad Bantas. The real target of the gunmen was the barangay chairman but they have to eliminate the bodyguard so they could carry out the murder,” said Karim.

PIKIT, North Cotabato – Unidentified
gunmen shot dead a village chair and his escort in a remote village here
Thursday afternoon, police said.

Chairperson Dats Simon, villa chair of Barangay
Bulol, Pikit and his escort Akmad Bantas, died instantly from multiple gunshot
wounds, according to Senior Insp. Sindatu Karim.

Karim told DXND Radyo Bida Koronadalsaid Simon was driving his Honda motorbike
with Bantas heading toward Barangay Bulol when ambushed along a dirt road by
five gunmen in Barangay Gli-Gli at 3 p.m.

Southwest Monsoon affecting Luzon and Visayas.WEATHER TODAYand Occasional rains will be experienced over Metro Manila, Ilocos Region, and the Provinces of Mindoro, Palawan, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Bataan, Pampanga and Zambales.Cloudy skies with light to moderate rains and isolated thunderstorms are expected over the Eastern Visayas and the rest of Luzon. Partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated thunderstorms will prevail over Mindanao and the rest of Visayas.

Its special non working holiday today, August 10, in Koronadal City as it hosts the Council of International Organizations of Folklore and Folkarts (CIOFF) - International Folklore Festival 2015.

LANAO DEL SUR --- Maranaw peasants in two Lanao del Sur towns stand to benefit from a P220 million road project that would connect their enclaves to major trading hubs in the province and in Bukidnon.Lanao del Sur is a component province of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) while Bukidnon is inside Administrative Region 10.ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman and Lanao del Sur’s chief executive, Gov. Mamintal Adiong, Jr.

DATU SALIBO, Maguindanao -- Close to 12,000 individuals have been displaced by floods in Maguindanao as a result of torrential rain brought about by Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone the past week, disaster officials today said. The Office of Civil Defense and the Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team (HEART) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), said nine towns of Maguindanao were severely affected but no displacement of locals.

KORONADAL CITY - A highway in Banga, South Cotabato known as accident prone has claimed another life after two motorcycles collided head on Friday night, authorities said. Killed due to head and body injuries was Julius Aspa, 43, resident of Banga while his back rider, Christopher Asong, 27 was seriously wounded. Aspa was driving his Honda RS 125 motorbike along the highway in Barangay Liwanay when his bike collided head on with another motorbike driven by Joey de Guira, 25 of Barangay Kusan, also in Banga.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - A village council member in a remote village of Magpet, North Cotabato has accused his village chair for violently attacking him during council session.The attack happened after Village CouncilorBoy Mandamlay raised a question during session why it was always he who has been sent by the village council to Army seminar on communist revolutionary tax collection. Why always me, why not our chair and other members attend the seminar as well? Mandamlay asked the council duringsession.

COTABATO CITY - A
fire destroyed the Cotabato City Evangelical Church and Agape
Schoolalong Makakua
Street at dawn Wednesday.

COTABATO CITY - The Cotabato City governmentsuspended classes Wednesday in elementary and secondary schools, both in public and private due to inclement weather.Lawyer Cynthia Guiani Sayadi, Cotabato City administrator, in a text message to DXMS Radyo Bida,announced the suspension of classes as early as 5 a.m.The city government also suspended classes Tuesday afternoon for elementary and high school due to day-long rain over the city and its environs.