DAVAO CITY The body of a fisherman who disappeared after jumping off his pump boat last Sunday was found on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 24, off the coast of Barangay Limao in Babak District, Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS), authorities said.
In a report released by the Philippine Coast Guard (
Google map of Pinan municipality, Zamboanga del Norte. ZAMBOANGA CITY - An election officer was killed while her assistant escaped unharmed in a drive-by shooting in Zamboanga del Norte's town of Pinan, a police official said Friday. Maj. Shellamie Chang, the Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, said Marcicel Peralta died instantaneously after being shot by a motorcycle-riding gunman around 8:42 p.m. Thursday in Barangay Lapu-Lapu, Pinan. Peralta, 45, is the election officer of Mutia, Zamboanga del Norte. Marites Inding, 52, Mutia's assistant election officer, was unhurt during the incident. Chang said Peralta was driving a car with Inding as her passenger when shot by a motorcycle-riding assailant who overtook them upon reaching a bridge in Barangay Lapu-Lapu. Peralta and Inding were on the way home to Dapitan City and Dipolog City, respectively, at the time of the incident. Authorities are investigating the incident. Meanwhile, the Commission on Ele
Anti-drug operatives seized around P9 million worth of suspected shabu, and arrested a suspect during a buy-bust operation in Davao City on Saturday, police reported on Sunday.
DAVAO CITY – Five members of the New Peoples’ Army (NPA), including a volunteer teacher who was among the “Bakwit 7” arrested in Cebu for alleged kidnapping and trafficking of Lumad minors, were killed in an encounter with military troops in Purok-8, Barangay Andap, New Bataan, Davao de Oro on Thurs