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COTABATO CITY -- Seven more firearms were surrendered by local officialsto police and military in Cotabato City
Monday raising the number of loose firearms turned over to authorities here to
51.

The firearms
were turned over during the oath-taking of PNP Regional Advisory Council at Al
Nor Convention Center.

Cotabato City
Mayor Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi was elected as RAC-12 chairperson.

PARANG, Maguindanao --- Police
authorities here have considered solved the beheading of two farmers last month
following the surrender of three suspects who admitted to the crime.

Supt. Ibrahim Jambira, the Parang police chief, said have voluntarily surrendered to the Barira town
police office and were turned over to Parang PNP on Sunday night.

LUTAYAN,
Sultan Kudarat (May 7) – Joint Army and police forces raided a house here
Sunday and seized war materials, including improvised bomb and bomb-making
components from a rebel’s home.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, the commander of the 33rd Infantry Battalion who led
the law enforcement operation, said Lasian Manibpel, the subject of search
warrant, managed to escape into the forest when police and soldiers, backed by
armored personnel carrier, swooped down the village of Sisiman at 3 a.m.
Sunday.

LAMBAYONG, Sultan Kudarat -- A sub-commander
of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and two of his subordinates were killed in
a police law enforcement operations in a remote village here before dawn
Saturday.

PARANG, Maguindanao – Police have identified the
suspect in the beheading of two farmers here last whose remains have been
buried today.

Supt. Ibrahim Jamiran, police chief of Parang
municipal police office, said the suspects in the brutal murder of Cesan Fermin
and Jaybob Bestas belonged to a group of crime groups whose members were killed
during police operations two weeks ago, also in Parang, Maguindanao.

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- A trial judge here has assured those facing criminal and civil cases that never again that his court would issue promulgation after 10 to 12 years.Judge Arvin Sadiri Balagot of the Regional Trial Court branch 17 expressed this after he issued last week a promulgation of one of the most celebrated murder cases in North Cotabato.Balagot admitted it took the court 12 years before it issued promulgation on the murder of a Filipino-Chinese trader in Kidapawan City.On April 27, Judge Balagot declared guilty beyond reasonable doubt the three former policemen and three gun-for-hir

COTABATO CITY -- Investigators are still facing a blank wall on the separate gun attacks early this week in the city and in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat that left three soldiers dead and hurt another.Superintendent Aldrin Gonzalez, information officer of the Police Regional Office-12, said Thursday probers are still validating the identities of the gunmen behind the fatal ambush of Cpl. Nelson Pamailan and Pfc. Richard Bendanillo, both of the 5thSpecial Forces Battalion, andCpl. RoelDordas of the 33rdInfantry Battalion. Efforts to determine the identities of the culprits are still underway.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – At least 45 public utility vehicles (PUVs) plying the Cotabato-Davao highway without franchises were impounded by traffic enforcers, police officers, and some elements of the Philippine Army in a random inspection on Wednesday. Of the vehicles, 31 were passenger vans and 14 were tricycles. They are considered, colorum, according toGinalinda Genotice, district head of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Kidapawan City.

COTABATO CITY – Police arrested here six persons including a suspected drug den
operator and sibling of a police officer during simultaneous law enforcement
operations in two villages Wednesday morning.

Armed with 16
search warrants issued by the local courts, police operatives, backed by the
Army’s Special Forces and led by Senior Inspector Tirso Pascual, police station
4 chief and Chief Inspector Efren Salazar, police station 2 head, raided the
house of Ali Sanday in Barangay Rosary Heights 8.

KIDAPAWAN CITY - Three persons were injured, one of them in critical condition, when their vehicle plunged into an open canal after its brakes exploded along the highway in President Roxas, North Cotabato on Tuesday afternooon.Chief Inspector Andres Sumugat, chief of the President Roxas municipal police, identified the victims as Marcel Ortega Suncad, 36, of Kidapawan City Mary Jane Casol Lebita, 37 and Cornelio Lambos, 42.Of the three, Lebita had to be rushed to a hospital in Davao City for further treatment.Sumugat said the green Toyota Hi-Ace van with license plate LDF-805 was headed to