Mindanao Armed Conflict

COTABATO CITY – Mayor Bruce Matabalao has condemned the series of shooting incidents in the city, the latest of which, was the ambush of an Army colonel’s vehicle along Sinsuat Avenue, on Saturday night.

Police have not released details of the latest incident, citing investigation is still going on.

No word from Cotabato City police director Colonel Querubin Manalang or his subordinates on the ambush of a certain retired Lt. Colonel Macalintangui. 

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte – Isinagawa ang tatlong araw na live fire exercises sa bagong armas ng Hukbong Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas na 155 Self-Propelled (ATMOS 2000) Howitzers sa Barangay Talisawa, Datu Abdullah Sangki, Maguindanao del Sur, mula Nobyembre 9-11, 2022.

Ayon kay Lt. Col. Chamberlain Esmino, Commander ng 10th Field Artillery Battalion na ang nasabing aktibidad ay bahagi ng pagtatapos ng 10FAB Battalion Organizational Training na mangangasiwa sa nasabing armas.

COTABATO CITY - Local executives assured Friday to help monitor the interim truce meant to stave off hostilities between the military and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Ungkaya Pukan, Basilan.

Four MILF members and three soldiers were Killed in the three day clashes in Barangay Ulitan, Ungkaya Pukan that started Tuesday.

Esmael Daomilang na naputol ang paa dahil sa Tacurong bus bombing, isa sa mga suspek na natukoy ng PNP

PRO 12- Nagbunga ng positibong resulta ng pagsisikap ng Special Investigation Task Group o SITG ng Police Regional Office 12.

Ito ay matapos matukoy na isa sa mga suspek sa bus bombing incident sa Tacurong City ang pasahero ding si Esmael Tamama Daomilang, 55 anyos na nagtamo ng matinding mga sugat.

ISANG BABAE ANG SINASABING may dala ng IED na pinasabog sa loob ng Yellow bus sa Tacurong City.

Ito ang sinabi ni acting Western Mindanao chief Maj. Gen. Arturo Rojas.

Aniya, may malinaw nang lead sa posibleng may dala ng pampasabog, kabilang ang isa sa apat na babaeng sumakay ng bus sa Mlang, North Cotabato at bumaba sa harap ng Iglesia ni Kristo bus stop area ng Tacurong.

Sinabi ni Maj. Gen. Rojas na ang information hinggil sa apat na pasaherong babae ay mula sa driver at conductor ng bus.

TACURONG CITY - Investigators are convinced the Al-Khobar and its ally, the Dawlah Islamiya, connived in Sunday’s bombing of a bus here that left a passenger dead and hurt 11 others.

Both groups are known for bombing public conveyances and business establishments to compel owners to pay "protection money" on monthly basis.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte — Joint Task Force Central and 6th Infantry (Kampilan) Division strongly condemned the bombing of one unit of Yellow Bus Lines Inc. in Purok Duranta, Barangay Poblacion, Tacurong City, 11:30 a.m. today.

COTABATO CITY - A passenger was killed while 11 others were badly hurt in a bomb explosion inside a bus in Tacurong City at noontime Sunday.

Lt. Col. Joan Maganto, chief of the Tacurong City Police, said Sunday the unit of the Yellow Bus Company was on its way to the city terminal, from North Cotabato, when the improvised explosive device went off.

Probers are certain the IED used in the attack was detonated from a distance using a mobile phone.

COTABATO CITY - A soldier was killed while two others were wounded when local terrorists fired at an Army team out on a humanitarian mission in Datu Hoffer, Maguindanao del Sur late Friday.

Major Gen. Roy Galido, commander of the Army’s 6^th Infantry Division, and Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region on Saturday separately condemned the atrocity, perpetrated by the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).

COTABATO CITY --- A leader of the New People’s Army wanted for 39 high-profile criminal cases was killed in a brief shootout with soldiers in Sultan Kudarat province Monday. 

Col. Michael Santos, commander of the Army’s 603^rd Infantry Brigade, said Tuesday Emmanuel Fernandez died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds.