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COTABATO CITY — The 26-year-old Philippine Coast Guard member wounded in a gun attack in Lamitan City, Basilan on Thursday afternoon died in a hospital in Zamboanga City before dawn Friday.
COTABATO CITY — Hundreds of families in lowland towns in Cotabato and in Bangsamoro barangays in the province got displaced after repeated heavy downpours caused rivers around and the nearby 220,000-hectare Ligawasan Marsh to overflow and inundate their dwelling enclaves.
COTABATO CITY — Policemen confiscated P523,000 worth of imported cigarettes in separate anti-smuggling operations in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi and in Jolo, Sulu on Thursday.
COTABATO CITY — Some 200 villagers have fled to neutral grounds as two rival groups in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front clashed and reportedly set houses on fire in a secluded area in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday morning.
COTABATO CITY— Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group clamped down a security guard in an agency of the Bangsamoro government after selling to them an M16 assault rifle in an entrapment operation in Cotabato City on Tuesday.
COTABATO CITY — Residents have urged for a deep probe into the bombing of a fuel station in Lamitan City, Basilan on Tuesday night. They are convinced that it was merely meant to embarrass the officials who declared all of its 45 barangays as Abu Sayyaf-free earlier the same day and not a terror attack.
COTABATO CITY — The police, military and local executives on Tuesday declared Lamitan City in Basilan free from the presence of the Abu Sayyaf that once had members in some of its 45 barangays, now touted as the new investment hubs in the island province.
COTABATO CITY — An ethnic Teduray farmer and his horse both died from accidental electrocution on Sunday night when they hit a high-tension power cable dangling loosely from a power post in a secluded hinterland in South Upi town, Maguindanao del Sur.