ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/13 Feb) –  The Zamboanga City Police Office (ZCPO) has identified four suspects behind the attempt to kill a village chief who is very vocal in his opposition to small-scale mining activities in his area. ZCPO director Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo said Sunday that they forwarded to the prosecutor’s office a case [...]

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/22 January) — A barangay chairman who is said to be vocal against the illegal small-scale mining activities in his village was reported to be in critical condition after he was shot early Friday. City police director Senior Supt. Edwin de Ocampo said the incident took place shortly after 6 a.m. Friday in [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) – A working student who had filed seven counts of rape against a detained suspect was shot dead last Sunday in Davao City. Authorities suspected that Rosemelyn Recote was gunned down in order to silence her. Recote, a first year college working student had filed seven cases in 2009 against Enrique [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/15 January) — – A female village chair was shot dead by one of her councilors following a heated altercation during a barangay council session in Dimoloc, Malita, Davao del Sur at around 3 p.m. Friday. Killed was Clara Ballota, 45, chair of Barangay Dimoloc in Malita. She suffered two gunshot wounds on [...]

TUBOD, Lanao del Norte (MindaNews/12 Jan) – A businessman and his aide died when four still unidentified armed men barged into his residence in the municipality of Sultan Naga Dimaporo in Lanao del Norte Tuesday evening, police reports said. Senior Supt. Orlando Benias, provincial police director, identified the fatalities as Danilo Yanoc, 50, of the [...]

ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — An official of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) was gunned down at the lobby of a hotel here at around 7 a.m. Monday but following a city-wide radio alert, police nabbed five suspects, including a policeman. Killed was Abdulhamin Bandahala, a resident [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/10 January) — The Communist New People’s Army (NPA) said the barangay captain killed on January 8 in an NPA attack in Barangay Datu Danwata, Malita Davao del Sur tried to fight back. Dencio Madrigal, the spokesperson of the NPA’s Valentin Palamine regional command, said in a statement e-mailed to the media that [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/08 January) – Two security guards of fruit giant Del Monte Philippines were killed in an ambush Tuesday by suspected New People’s Army rebels along the highway in Impasugong, Bukidnon. Tito Yecyec, team leader and Ronilo Madrid died before reaching the Bethel Baptist Hospital in Malaybalay City. Two others, Antonio Alambatin and Warlito [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/06 January) — The City Prosecution Office indicted an electrician, whose pistol was linked to eight incidents of summary killings in the city, for the death of a 42-year-old man in Barangay Sto. Nino, Tugbok District on Aug. 20, 2010. Prosecutor Joseph Mamburam charged alias Jojo Putot for murder based on the complaint [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 January) – Police investigators in South Cotabato are closely looking at a land-related conflict as behind the daring shooting of a liaison officer of Sarangani Rep. Emmanuel Pacquiao in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Region 12 office in Koronadal City late Tuesday afternoon. Supt. Anecito Ambay, Koronadal [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Malaybalay Bishop Jose Araneta Cabantan centered his homily on mining and rising criminality in Bukidnon, in a mass held on New Year’s Eve at the San Isidro Cathedral here. “Mining, whether small or large scale, is a threat to the environment,” Cabantan said. Cabantan’s statement contradicted that of Bukidnon Governor [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/03 January) – Authorities in Sultan Kudarat province today filed homicide and frustrated homicide charges against the driver of a municipal mayor in Maguindanao for wounding a balut vendor and killing her son on New Year’s Eve in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat. Inspector Jojie Nicolas, chief of Isulan police, identified the suspect as Badrudin [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/30 Dec) – An Army soldier belonging to the 7th Infantry Battalion was killed and another was seriously injured after they were attacked by unidentified motorcycle-riding men while manning the checkpoint along the highway in Kabacan, North Cotabato, around 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Authorities identified the slain soldier as Cpl. Rey Osoteo and [...]

SURIGAO CITY (MindaNews/20 Dec) – Dismayed with the finding of the police’s Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) over the controversial death of Rosalyn Abadiez, family members said they are contemplating on hiring an independent investigator to find out more about the killing. Rosalyn, a nursing student at the Surigao Education Center here said to [...]

KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/16 December) — A trader was gunned down while on her way to a public market in Isulan town in Sultan Kudarat past 6:00 a.m. Monday, belated police reports said. Police identified the victim as Rogelia Bengan, a resident of nearby Esperanza town, who was at the market with her husband when the [...]

MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/05 December) – A complaint has been filed before the City Prosecutor’s Office against the suspects in the killing of Bukidnon State University instructor Jaspher Jay Santo Nino. Jonally Santo Nino, father of the victim filed a complaint of robbery with homicide on November 30 after the National Bureau of Investigation captured one [...]

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/2 Dec) – The late Barira vice mayor Alexander Tomawis, who was killed by gunmen in his apartment here last Sunday, received threats to his life days and weeks before he was killed, the Task Group Tomawis said. Supt. Pedro Cabatingan, chief of the police’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) designated to [...]

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/30 November) – Police and Army units based in Sarangani province have launched an “all-out pursuit” against a ragtag group of bandits operating in the hinterland areas of Malungon town following its recent attacks in the area that led to the killing of a local resident. Malungon Mayor Reynaldo Constantino said Tuesday [...]