85 rescued as boat drifts off Tawi-Tawi
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Eighty-five people were rescued after their boat developed engine trouble in the waters off Tawi-Tawi on Tuesday.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines — Eighty-five people were rescued after their boat developed engine trouble in the waters off Tawi-Tawi on Tuesday.
COTABATO CITY — The Navy and local government units on Tuesday rescued 78 passengers of a distressed boat and its seven crewmen in the territorial seas of Tawi-Tawi, now in the custody of the Bangsamoro social services ministry, the regional police announced on Thursday.
COTABATO CITY — Two airports in the Bangsamoro region are set to have new plush passenger lounges each, now being constructed by the regional government’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
COTABATO CITY — A political party founded in Lanao del Sur, also aiming to cohesively connect the agriculture sector and business organizations in the Bangsamoro region, has expanded to Tawi-Tawi to unite local farmers and fisherfolks for socio-economic ventures.
KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines — Gunmen killed in an ambush on Friday in nearby Carmen town an electric consumption meter reader of a provincial power utility, barely two weeks after a lineman in Tawi-Tawi was shot dead while about to disconnect lines to a house whose owner has accumulated unpaid bills.
MANILA, Philippines — Two barangay captains were shot dead in separate incidents since Friday.
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Two men on a motorcycle on Friday shot dead an employee of a power cooperative in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi and wounded another while they were to cut a line connected to a house whose owner has accumulated unpaid bills.