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Charges for damage to property also filed vs them (Eagle News)–Charges on Monday, Feb. 4, were filed against several suspects in the Jolo, Sulu blasts that killed at least 23 people and injured 95 others. Twenty-three counts of murder, 95 counts of frustrated murder charges and charges for damage to property were filed against Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan alias Imam, Usman Absara aliad Usman, Barak Ingog alias Bars, Makrim Habisi alias Makrim, Kammah Pae alias Kamah, […]
(Eagle News)–The police on Monday, Feb. 4, reiterated that Richard Santillan, former Biliran Rep. Glenn Chong’s aide, was killed in a legitimate encounter with police. “For us, indeed it was a shootout,” Supt. Joseph Arguelles of the Police Regional Office 4-A said during a hearing by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs. Arguelles cited what he said were the two bullet holes in the front bumper of the SWAT mobile of the […]
(Eagle News)—-Two people were killed after a fire razed a residential area in Cainta, Rizal on Sunday, Feb. 3. The fatalities in the incident on Ortigas Avenue and Felix Avenue in Barangay Santo Domingo were identified as Maria Refol Cabucas, 81, and John Bell Lorenzo, 26. Authorities said the two may have suffocated because of the blaze that hit at 5:06 p.m. and spread to an adjacent subdivision. The fire reached the Task Force Alpha alarm […]
Several others also yield (Eagle News)–An Abu Sayyaf commander who was allegedly a suspect in the twin blasts in Jolo, Sulu that killed at least 21 people has surrendered to authorities. Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde said “Kamah” of the Abu Sayyaf’s Ajang Ajang group was accompanied by four other Abu Sayyaf members when they yielded to the police. He said 14 suspects in the blasts remain at large. Interior Secretary Eduardo Año has […]
(Eagle News)–The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has placed on preventive suspension the bus company that figured in a traffic incident on the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway. The LTFRB suspended the Jumbo Transport Inc. for not more than 30 days, and ordered it to comply with certain requirements within the period of suspension. The LTFRB ordered the company to bring its tourist buses to the agency for “inspection and determination of road worthiness,” to allow its drivers […]
(Eagle News)–At least eight members of the Islamic State-inspired Daulah Islamiyah were killed after the military captured a bandit stronghold in Maguindanao. 6th Infantry Division commander Major General Cirilito Sobejana said 10 other bandits, including a Daulah Islamiyah sub-commander, Salahudin Hassan of the Toraype group, were also wounded in the operation in the camp in Sultan sa Barongis on Saturday, Feb. 2. Hassan was reportedly a student of Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, the Indonesian […]
(Eagle News)–Five soldiers were killed and five others were injured in a clash with Abu Sayyaf members led by one of the men allegedly behind the Jolo, Sulu twin blasts on Saturday, Feb. 2. Col. Gerry Besana, Armed Forces of the Philippines Western Mindanao Command spokesperson, said in an interview over radio dzbb that three Abu Sayyaf members led by Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan were also killed and more than 15 bandits were injured, including a “high-value target,” […]
(Eagle News)—Members of the military clashed with suspected Abu Sayyaf members under the command of one of the men Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said was behind the Jolo, Sulu blasts. Armed Forces of the Philippines-Western Mindanao Command spokesperson Col. Gerry Besana said members of the 5th Scout Ranger Battalion and around 100 Abu Sayyaf terrorists under Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan clashed around 11:30 a.m. in Sitio Sungkog, Barangay Kabuntakas. Año had said the Jolo, Sulu blasts, like the […]
(Eagle News) — An Indonesian couple assisted by local terrorists carried out the twin blasts in Jolo, Sulu that left at least 20 people dead, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said on Friday, Feb. 1. In an interview over CNN Philippines, Año said the purpose of Abu Huda and his wife, who has not been named yet, was to “set an example and induce Filipinos to become suicide bombers.” He said the male Indonesian had been staying in […]
(Eagle News) — The wife of Rep. Rodel Batocabe, who was slain in December last year, will replace him in the mayoral race in Daraga, Albay. Gertie Duran-Batocabe made the announcement herself in a Facebook post. Her post included pictures of President Rodrigo Duterte, who appeared to have endorsed her bid. “Thank you, Mr. President for all the help and encouragement. Yes, ready to be a #partnerforchange for our hometown of Daraga!,” she said. She […]
(Eagle News) — Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Friday, Feb. 1, said he was convinced the Jolo, Sulu cathedral attack that left several dead was a case of suicide bombing. Lorenzana said his statement on who was behind the attack on the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral on Sunday, Jan. 27, was based on the “evidence at hand,” mainly the body parts that were found inside and outside the cathedral. “According to the forensic […]
(Eagle News) — Police on Friday, Feb. 1, released the composite sketches of three suspects in the killing of Randy Malayao. Malayao, a National Democratic Front of the Philippines consultant, was shot dead while he was sleeping on a bus bound for Nueva Vizcaya. Based on initial investigation, the gunman boarded the bus at a bus stop and shot him at close range. It was still unclear what the roles of the other two suspects […]
