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(Eagle News) — Over 200 Special Action Forces members have been ordered deployed to Eastern Visayas upon their graduation on Friday, Feb. 6. The Philippine National Police said PNP Chief Debold Sinas gave the instruction for the deployment of the 226 SAF troopers as part of the intensified internal security and anti-criminality operations in the area, complementing the national government program to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC). The SAF members, who are graduates of […]
Suspects escape (Eagle News) — One person was killed and another was injured in an encounter between government troops and a a member of the Dawlah Islamiyah and his two cohorts, the Philippine National Police said. In a statement, the PNP said Leonardo Gatinao Jr. was killed while Aldrin Jay Palma was hurt in the gunfight between joint elements of local police units of Polomolok and Tupi, the intelligence unit of the South Cotobato Police […]
(Eagle News)– The Philippine National Police will file criminal charges against the local terrorists behind the Datu Piang, Maguindanao attack on December 3. In a statement, PNP Chief Debold Sinas said the police would also implement “intensified security measures to prevent similar threats posed by violent extremists,” noting that the authorities were already in pursuit of the some 50 armed men who went on the 2-hour rampage. A PNP patrol car was burned in the […]
(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration has said it would initiate deportation proceedings against a suspected Pakistani bomb maker who was recently arrested for possession of guns and explosives. But Immigration chief Jaime Morente said despite Haroon Bashir’s summary deportation proceedings, he will not be deported yet as he is facing the criminal charges. The charges stem from a raid conducted by operatives armed with a search warrant, and who found a caliber .45 […]
