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ALEOSAN, North
Cotabato -- Police here have launched a manhunt against two men
who tossed a hand grenade along the national highway here Sunday night that
injured a woman.

We are pursuing
a lead, hopefully it will result to the identification, arrest and prosecution
of the suspects, Senior Inspector Edwin Abantes, Aleosan town police chief,
said Monday.

He identified
the victim as Arlen Tamanal, resident of Barangay Pagangan, Aleosan.

PRES. QUIRINO,
Sultan Kudarat – An elected local official in Sultan Kudarat has been
supporting the communist New Peoples’ Army (NPA), an Army official said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, the chief of 33rd Infantry Battalion based here,
said three of the eight NPAs who surrendered to his unit on Friday in
Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat had confessed about the local official’s role in the
movement.

KIDAPAWAN CITY --- The lawyer of a state college president from whose house agents found shabu Monday urged authorities not to arrest his client without court permission.In a report Saturday, Catholic station dxND here said Israelito Torreon, counsel of Samson Molao, also questioned the veracity of his client’s having allegedly operated a drug den in the campus of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology.The state-owned school, most known as CFCST, is operating in the upland Arakan town in the third district of North Cotabato.Torreon has emphasized that there is no warrant

KIDAPAWAN CITY – The legislative council here has put on hold proposals to give a wounded Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) member commendations for his valor and heroism.Kidapawan City councilor Jivy Roe Bombeo, author of the proposals, said the council has yet to dig deeper the incident that involved Police Officer 3 Erick John Yamuta, SWAT member who was critically wounded after he engaged in a shootout with a group of armed men on January 27.The proposals were referred to Councilor Francis Palmones, chair of the Committee on Peace and Order and Councilor Ruby Padilla-Sison, chair of t

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Cotabato state-run college president Dr. Sam Molao is ready to face ‘serious’ charges filed against him, including alleged operation of a drug den inside the school and possession of illegal firearms, his lawyer said.Molao was not in his staff house when anti-narcotics agents conducted the raid on Monday.

BAGUMBAYAN,
Sultan Kudarat – Eight more communist rebels in Sultan Kudarat
have decided to return to the folds of the law Friday, an Army colonel today
said.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, commander of 33rd Infantry Battalion, said the
rebels decided to come down after getting exhausted in the military’s
relentless pursuit operations against New Peoples’ Army (NPA).

Cabunoc said
to date, a total of 111 rebels have surrendered to the 33rd IB.

KIDAPAWAN CITY ---Four persons, three of them were motorcycle drivers, died instantly when a wayward 10-wheeler truck rammed their vehicles along the national highway in Makilala, North Cotabato Thursday morning.One of the victim's body was cut into two when the truck driver, negotiating a downward portion of the national highway in Barangay Patulangon, Makilala, North Cotabato, lost control of its brake system and went wayward.The driver escaped after the incident, according to Makilala traffic office.Witnesses said it took the emergency medical staff of Kidapawan City’s Call 911 and rescu

KORONADAL CITY – A village chair in an upland town
in South Cotabato who is in the narco-list of President Duterte was arrested by
police agents Wednesday morning.

Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police
in Region 12, identified the arrested official as Pudi Udasan Ambalgan,
chairperson of Barangay Upper Sepaka, Surallah, South Cotabato.

ESPERANZA, Sultan Kudarat – A philanthropist who
wanted to make her town peaceful and progressive has built a building to be
used by law enforcers as Community Police Assistance Center (CPAC).

The building, inaugurated and officially turned over
to the Esparanza Police Office, was put up at the town’s public market to
ensure safety of market goers.

COTABATO CITY -- The military has mobilized agents to help the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency locate a government school president wanted for alleged possession of P500,000 worth of shabu.
Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Jr. of the Western Mindanao Command said Tuesday they can help the police and PDEA search for Samsom Molao through intelligence support operations.
We don’t have police powers but our units can help PDEA through intelligence gathering and it is something we have been doing for quite a time now in support of Malacañang’s anti-narcotics drive, Galvez said.