ISABELA CITY, Basilan - One died while five others were wounded when unidentified gunmen shot at a group of voters in Tabuan Lasa municipality as they were coming out of a polling center Monday afternoon. Brig. Gen. Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force (JTF)-Basilan commander, identified the fatality as Ricardo Fabian, 52, who was killed on the spot. Wounded were Andy Reyes Jr., 30; Narrudin Gadjali, 29; Alnasri Jammang, 29; Bol Madjalis, 48; and Hakim Munib, 38. The victims had just emerged from the polling center in Barangay Tong-Umus, Tapiantana Island, Tabuan Lasa, when the suspects shot them with high-powered firearms at around 2 p.m. Police said they have yet to ascertain the identities of the suspects, who were hiding in houses located near the polling center during the incident. "The gunmen just waited for us to leave the place and started shooting the victims," Col. Pedro Martirez, Basilan police director, said. Martirez said the suspects fled before the responding JTF-B
A suspected Abu Sayyaf bomb expert was killed in an encounter that resulted in the recovery of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Isabela, Basilan on Friday.
MEDICAL SUPPLIES. The island provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi receive medical equipment and some PHP3.7 million worth of medicines from the Ministry of Health in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM) on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Shown in the photo is one of the three sea ambulances MOH-BARMM distributed to the three provinces. (Photo courtesy of MOH-BARMM) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Six medical facilities in the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi (BaSulTa) provinces have received six units of ambulances and some PHP3.7 million worth of medicines and other equipment from the Ministry of Health in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOH-BARMM). The six units of ambulance include three sea ambulances that were given to the rural health units (RHUs) in the island town of Siasi, Sulu; Datu Halun Sakilan Memorial Hospital in coastal Bongao, Tawi-Tawi; and, the district hospital of the island municipality of Languyan, also in Tawi-Taw
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Representative Mujiv Hataman of the lone district of Basilan has filed a bill seeking to reapportion the province into two legislative districts. Hataman said in a statement Tuesday that House Bill 10407, which was filed on Monday, would allow the local government to keep up with the increasing population of Basilan province, which is made up of two component cities and 11 municipalities. The two component cities are Isabela and Lamitan, while the 11 towns are Tuburan, Mohammad Ajul, Akbar, Tipo-Tipo, Al-Barka, Ungkaya Pukan, Sumisip, Tabuan-Lasa, Lantawan, Hadji Muhtamad, and Maluso. Hataman said that HB 10407, once passed into law, will increase the number of representations of Basilan province before the House of Representatives. "While the population of Basilan increases, the needed governmental services of the province also grows. It is now appropriate that Basilan should have two Representatives in Congress to attend to the needs of its constituents as well
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