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COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Officials on Saturday assured to cooperate in reintegrating to mainstream society the 14 Abu Sayyaf terrorists who surrendered last Wednesday in Basilan through the intercession of local executives and Army officials in the province.
Philippine National Police (PNP) bomb technicians disposed of 360 pounds of explosives recovered in law enforcement and public safety operations.
COTABATO CITY — A police team seized an M16 assault rifle from two alleged gunrunners long under surveillance for illegal peddling of firearms both entrapped in a Barangay Rosary Heights 1, Cotabato City on Wednesday afternoon.
MANILA, Philippines — The Premier Volleyball League closes out the season with a couple of firsts – the first time it will hold two All-Filipino Conferences in a year and the first opening playdate where it will pit two sister teams against each other.
A little-known 6-1 Iranian guard came out of nowhere to nearly beat Gilas singlehandedly in the quarterfinals of men’s basketball at the Hangzhou Asian Games the other day. Mohammad Sina Vahedi, 22, was never considered a star on the Iranian national squad and in the domestic league, earned a dubious reputation as a nomad switching from team to team over the last five years.
Australian investigators are exploring the possibility that an oxygen cylinder could have exploded mid-flight on the Qantas jumbo jet from London that was forced to plunge 20,000 feet and make an emergency landing in the Philippines.The Boeing 747-400 was cruising at 29,000 feet on Friday with 346 passengers aboard when it was shaken by what passengers described as an explosion. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as the plane descended rapidly and debris flew through the cabin from a hole that suddenly appeared in the floor.The plane, en route to Melbourne, Australia, managed to land safely minutes later at the Manila airport.
AQantas jet crippled by a mid-air explosion will be repaired and flying to London again by November — as dramatic pictures today revealed how close to disaster the aircraft had come. Officials said the Melbourne-bound 747 jet, which made a forced landing in Manila on a flight from Heathrow, could be repaired for less than £5 million, despite extensive damage in the fuselage. The news came as photos suggested only luck had prevented a chain reaction of exploding oxygen cylinders destroying the entire plane.
An exploding oxygen cylinder may have ripped open the fuselage of a Qantas jumbo jet that had to make an emergency landing, investigators said yesterday. Such a blast would have major implications for 747 aircraft around the world, said the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority. It has sent experts to Manila in the Philippines to inspect the aircraft.