Residents said the attack was in retaliation for a local mobilisation against the al-Qaeda-affiliated group that holds significant parts of central and southern Somalia.
GROUNDBREAKING. San Carlos City Mayor Renato Gustilo and First District Rep. Gerardo Valmayor Jr., together with the Department of the Interior and Local Government and Philippine Army officials, lead the groundbreaking ceremony for the Barangay Quezon concrete access road on Tuesday (Nov. 23, 2021). Construction of the road project, funded under the Barangay Development Program of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, is expected to start in the first week of December.(Photo courtesy of NegOcc-San Carlos City Information Office) BACOLOD CITY - Some three insurgency-cleared villages in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental will soon have better access roads in transporting their farm produce to the city proper. The concreting of farm-to-market road projects, funded under the Barangay Development Program (BDP) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), was launched in the mountain barangays of Codcod, Nataban, and Quezon on Tuesda