Two voters killed in Maguindanao del Norte shooting on election day

10/30/2023

MANILA, Philippines — Two voters were killed while three others were wounded in a Maguindanao del Norte shooting on Monday morning, police said. Brigadier General Allan Nobleza, regional director of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s…

Gov’t nurse slain, hubby hurt in Maguindanao del Norte ambush

Edwin O. Fernandez 05/29/2023

Maguindanao del Norte, Philippines – Unidentified gunmen killed a government nurse and wounded her husband in an ambush during a heavy downpour on Friday night in this town, police said. Lt. Col. Julhamin Asdani, municipal police chief…

2 village execs slain in separate gun attacks in Maguindanao

Edwin O. Fernandez 04/09/2023

PARANG, Maguindanao Norte – A village councilman and his wife were shot dead by still unidentified gunmen on Sunday morning in this town, a day after a village chairperson of Sultan Kudarat province was slain in an ambush…

Army uses truck-mounted howitzers vs IS terrorists in Maguindanao

Edwin Fernandez 03/26/2023

MIDSAYAP, Cotabato, Philippines – For the first time after being deployed in central Mindanao in October last year, the 155-mm Autonomous Truck Mounted Howitzers Systems (ATMOS) of the Army saw action in the pursuit of Islamic State-linked terrorists in…

Poll exec, school principal survive Maguindanao attacks

Edwin Fernandez 05/31/2022

COTABATO CITY, Maguindanao, Philippines – A school principal and an election officer, both women, survived separate ambuscades on Monday in Maguindanao, police said. In Barangay Malangit in Pandag, Baimhon Ambalgan, a Tacurong City resident and the principal of…

3 passengers hurt in Maguindanao bus explosion

Edwin Fernandez 04/24/2022

PARANG, MAGUINDANAO – Three passenger were injured when an improvised bomb went off inside a Rural Tours bus parked along the roadside here on its way to Dipolog City. Lt. Colonel Joseph D. Macatangay, Parang town police…

Peace and conflict stories from the margins

Rufa Cagoco-Guiam 12/07/2020

Datu Piang, Maguindanao. Founded in 1936, as the town of Dulawan, Datu Piang is a second-class municipality and one of the oldest towns in Maguindanao province. Several decades ago, I did a full-length immersion into the culture…

Labella orders probe on Cebu City students who tested positive of COVID-19 in Maguindanao

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella wants to know how 12 students from Cebu City were able to go home to their hometown in Maguindanao without being tested for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).…

6,000 flee as clashes erupt anew in Maguindanao

Philippine Daily Inquirer 05/27/2020

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, South Cotabato, Philippines —Days before the end of Ramadan, more than 1,000 families were forced to leave their homes in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province, after mortar shells hit their villages, a report…

Maguindanao town vice mayor ambushed, critically hurt

Edwin Fernandez - Inquirer Mindanao 12/24/2019

SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao –– Unidentified gunmen riding on a motorbike ambushed Tuesday Vice Mayor Akmad M. Ampatuan of Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, police said. Ampatuan, half brother of the late Maguindanao strongman Andal Ampatuan Sr., was heading home…

Police seek help in finding 80 Maguindanao massacre suspects

Dona Z. Pazzibugan, Jeannette I. Andrade, JHESSET O. ENANO 12/23/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police on Sunday described as a big challenge accounting for 80 persons, 12 of them police personnel, who were allegedly involved in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre. “This is a big challenge…

Jail to be locked down for massacre verdict

Meg Adonis - Philippine Daily Inquirer 12/15/2019

MANILA, Philippines — The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) will lock down the jail facility inside its Camp Bagong Diwa headquarters in Taguig City on Thursday for the much-awaited hearing where the Quezon City Regional Trial…

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