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Alert Level 3 in these areas effectve until Feb. 15, 2022 (Eagle News) – Six more provinces were placed under Covid Alert Level 3 that would take effect today, Friday, January 28. These are Palawan, Camiguin, Davao Occidental, Dinagat Islands, Tawi-Tawi and Sulu, according to Malacanang. Acting presidential spokesperson and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) has approved the escalation of alert level status of these provinces noting the rise […]
The Philippine government has opened its 138th Malasakit Center at the Sulu Sanitarium in Jolo, Sulu on Friday, Sept. 3. This the eighth hospital in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao and second in Jolo to open a Malasakit Center, after the Sulu Provincial Hospital which launched its own last January 6. Senate Committee on Health Chair Christopher “Bong” Go welcomed the opening of the latest 38th Malasakit Center in a virtual message. Go […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar has ordered a more thorough probe into the killing of the Sulu provincial chief. In a statement, the PNP said Eleazar instructed Police Brigadier General Eden Ugale, PNP Regional Director for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (BAR) to constitute a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) at the regional level that will coordinate all efforts of PNP units as they investigate the shooting of Police Colonel Michael Bawayan […]
(Eagle News) — The number of fatalities in the C-130 crash in Sulu over the weekend has risen to 53. According to the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the fatalities included three civilians from Bangkal in Patikul, where the military plane crashed and burst into flames on Sunday, July 4. AFP Chief Cirilito Sobejana said in a television interview of the 50 soldiers who were killed, 16 have been identified. He said they were identified […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine security forces have retrieved the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of a military aircraft that crashed in a coconut grove and killed 52 people, a top commander said Tuesday. The C-130 Hercules transport plane was carrying 96 people, mostly fresh army graduates, when it overshot the runway on Sunday while trying to land on Jolo island in the southern Sulu province. Witnesses and survivors told investigators the plane landed […]
Says he’ll make sure that the soldiers “did not die in vain” (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte visited the wake of the soldiers who perished in the C-130 plane crash in Patikul, Sulu, expressing his sorrow for the lives lost, as he assured their families of support. Duterte said he is “at a loss for words” for what happened, as he saluted the soldiers who died in the July 4 crash where 50 […]
PHL Defense department investigating incident (Eagle News) – Malacanang expressed its condolences to those who lost their lives in a plane crash of a C130 Hercules plane in Sulu where at least 50 lives were lost, mostly soldiers who recently finished a training on counter-insurgency. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that the whole nation is in mourning. The Department of National Defense is conducting an investigation of Sunday’s tragic incident involving a second-hand plane […]
by Ferdinandh Cabrera Agence France Presse COTABATO, Philippines (AFP) — At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured Sunday when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed and burst into flames after missing the runway in the country’s south, officials said. Nearly a hundred people, most of them recent army graduates, were on the C-130 Hercules transport plane which was trying to land on Jolo island in Sulu province around midday. Some of […]
(Eagle News)–At least 17 people were killed after a C-130 plane crashed in Sulu on Sunday, July 4. Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said 40 others were hurt after the Philippine Air Force plane crashed at 11:30 a.m. Lorenzana said the plane had come from Lumbia airport in Cagayan de Oro and was about to land in Jolo airport when the incident happened. The plane, he said, was carrying 92 people. Of the 92, he said […]
(Eagle News) — A military plane carrying at least 85 soldiers crashed in Sulu on Sunday, July 4. According to media reports, the plane was supposed to land at Jolo airport when it crashed at 11:30 a.m.. Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Cirilito Sobejana told reporters the C-130 was transporting troops from Cagayan de Oro but missed the runway “trying to regain power.” He said the plane ended up crashing in Barangay Bangkal, Patikul. […]
Three Indonesian fishermen kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants more than a year ago have been rescued in the southern Philippines, police said Friday. The men were among eight crew members aboard a vessel when it was boarded by the notorious kidnap-for-ransom militants — who have distant links to the Islamic State group — off Borneo in January 2020. They were held in Sulu province in the southern Philippines — the group’s stronghold — and during […]
(Eagle News) — Authorities seized over P20 million worth of illegal drugs in Sulu, the Philippine National Police said on Monday, March 15. The PNP said the paper bag with more or less three kilograms of shabu and with a street value of P20.4 million were seized from Ejek Ali Abduhalim, 44, in a buy-bust operation on Sunday. The PNP said the operation was conducted by intel operatives of the Sulu, Jolo Municipal Police Station, […]
