Isang Moro na ama ng tahanan ang napatay sa ambush sa Upi sa Maguindanao del Norte nitong hapon ng Lunes, April 13.

Sa ulat nitong Martes ng Maguindanao del Norte Provincial Police Office at ng Upi Municipal Police Station, sakay ng kanyang motorsiklo si Panun Mundas ng tambangan ng mga armadong nakaabang sa kanya na nagsanhi sa kanyang agarang pagkamatay.

Si Mundas ay nadeklarang dead on arrival ng mga doctor sa Datu Blah Sinsuat District Hospital sa Upi, isa sa 12 na mga bayan sa Maguindanao del Norte, kung saan siya isinugod ng mga barangay officials upang malapatan sana lunas.

Ayon sa mga local executives sa Upi, mabilis na nakatakas ang mga nag-ambush kay Mundas.

Makikita sa larawan ang fatal ambush victim na si Mundas. (April 14, 2026, Upi, Maguindanao del Norte)

COTABATO CITY (April 13, 2026) — Local executives and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region are together guarding the seaports in Basilan to prevent the possible escape to the province of the two men who killed a Lebanese and his Filipino wife in Zamboanga City on Friday, April 10.

The slain couple, the Lebanese national Fahed Hamdan and his spouse, Anora, owned a printing press and an internet shop close to the intersection of the Cervantes and Pilar Streets in Zamboanga City in Region 9, not too distant from Basilan, one of the five provinces in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Brig. Gen. Edwin Quilates, director of the Police Regional Office 9, said on Sunday that their continuing hunt for both suspects is being assisted by intelligence units under Lt. Gen. Donald Gumiran, commander of the military’s Western Mindanao Command, also based in Zamboanga City.

The Hamdans were shot with a pistol one after another by one of their two assailants inside their establishment. Hamdan’s wife died instantly from bullet wounds sustained in the attack. Hamdan passed away in a hospital where he was brought by emergency responders for treatment.

Radio reports here on Sunday stated that Basilan Gov. Mujiv Hataman and his constituent-mayor, Roderick Furigay of Lamitan City and officials of the Basilan Provincial Police Office are cooperating in guarding the seaports in the province against possible entry from Zamboanga City of the two killers of the Hamdan couple.

Zamboanga City Mayor Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso had circulated screen grabbed photos of the two suspects from copies of footage obtained from the security cameras inside the business establishment of the victims and in stores outside.

Olaso had offered a P500,000 incentive for any information that could help the police locate the duo.

Hamdan was shown in the security camera trying to disarm the gunman who shot him and his wife with a pistol, but eventually fell, weakened by his gunshot wounds in the upper torso.

Hataman and Furigay have deployed personnel of the civil security units under their respective offices to the seaports in the cities of Isabela and Basilan to help plainclothes intelligence operatives of units of PRO-BAR in the province guard against any possible intrusion by the killers of the Hamdans from Zamboanga City.

“This is just a security measure. It is unlikely for the suspects to come and hide in Basilan but we are not taking chances. We are guarding against that. The local government unit of Lamitan and our provincial government, under our present governor, and the city government of Zamboanga are partners in peace and development initiatives,” Furigay said.

Hataman is chairman of the multi-sector Basilan Peace and Order Council, a known active supporter of the police and military’s peacekeeping missions in their province.

Photo shows the Lebanese national Hamdan and his wife, killed in Zamboanga City by two attackers, now both subject of a joint police-military manhunt. []

ZAMBOANGA CITY (April 13, 2026) — Bumisita sa Basilan si Zamboanga City Councilor District 2 Hon. Frederick Atilano upang personal na magpasalamat sa mga opisyal ng lalawigan dahil sa kanilang tulong at kooperasyon sa isang matagumpay na operasyon.

Isa sa dalawang suspek na sangkot sa insidente ng robbery at pamamaril ay naaresto at kasalukuyang nasa kustodiya ng mga awtoridad matapos ang isinagawang operasyon sa Lantawan, Basilan.

Ang matagumpay na pagkakadakip ay naging posible dahil sa pinagsanib na puwersa ng iba’t ibang law enforcement units at suporta ng mga lokal na opisyal, kabilang ang Vice Mayor ng Lantawan na si Omaer Abubakar.

Nagpahayag din ng pasasalamat ang mga opisyal sa tuloy-tuloy na suporta ni Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso, na malaking tulong sa maayos na koordinasyon at mabilis na aksyon ng operasyon.

Pinuri naman ng mga kinauukulan ang pagtutulungan ng iba’t ibang ahensya at lokal na pamahalaan na nagresulta sa agarang pagkakadakip ng suspek at sa patuloy na pagpapalakas ng kapayapaan at kaayusan sa komunidad. (Regino Delos Santos, April 13, 2026)

COTABATO CITY (April 12, 2026) — Militiamen and soldiers shot and wounded three individuals, riding a vehicle together, they misconstrued as New People’s Army guerillas for recklessly forcing their way through a checkpoint near the town center of T’boli, South Cotabato on Thursday night, April 9.

The incident was preceded by an encounter on Thursday Morning between personnel of the Army’s 603rd Infantry Brigade and NPAs in Barangay Laconon in T’boli that left Anthony Narvasa, secretary of the rebel group’s self-styled Far South Mindanao Region Command, and his female aide, Rosa Kian, dead

Narvasa and Kian were both wanted for multiple murder, multiple frustrated murder, arson, extortion and armed robbery cases pending in different courts in South Cotabato province and in its capital, Koronadal City.

Officials of the South Cotabato Provincial Police Office and employees of the T’boli Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office told reporters on Saturday that the three persons wounded in what was for them a peculiar incident, Delfin Tan Forod, Arlene Sawan Lambong and Rafael Zunio Francisco, were immediately transported to a hospital for treatment.

Their companion, Alvin Tuan Sacay, a barangay councilor, survived the incident unscathed.

Investigators from the T’boli Municipal Police Station told reporters the four of them were together in a 4×4 rugged terrain vehicle, driven by Forod, who, despite having noticed the presence of members of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit and soldiers at a roadblock ahead of them, drove through fast.

The CAFGU members and soldiers fired warning shots to compel them to stop but instead of pulling over, they sped away, forcing them to open fire at their vehicle, hitting Forod, Lambong and Francisco in different parts of their bodies.

The municipal police, the CAFGU team and soldiers assigned to different barangays in T’boli were on full alert then owing to threats by companions of the slain Narvasa and Kian to set-off improvised explosive devices in populated areas in the municipality to avenge their demise in a gunfight with combatants of the 603rd Infantry Brigade on Thursday morning.

Major Gen. Jose Vladimir Cagara, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, told reporters on Saturday that the incident was a tacit case of “miscommunication” that turned haywire and that efforts to put a closure to it are still underway.

Cagara said the troops involved in the incident are now confined to one area, undergoing procedural questioning.

Ethnic T’boli tribal leaders in the municipality, among them members of their multi-sector municipal peace and order council, said they do not blame the soldiers and CAFGU members who shot the victims, apparently provoked by their misbehavior.

Photo show police forensic experts inspecting the vehicle ridden by the three villagers hurt in an unusual incident on Thursday night, April 9, in T’boli, South Cotabato. [] 

NAHULI ang isang lalaki matapos makumpiskahan ng pinaghihinalaang ilegal na droga sa isinagawang checkpoint operation ng Tugunan PNP bandang alas-5:20 ng hapon kahapon, April 11, 2026, ayon sa ulat ng Catholic Station DXMS sa Cotabato City.

Batay sa ulat ng PNP, isinagawa ang operasyon sa harap mismo ng Tugunan Municipal Police Station na pinamumunuan ni PLt. Cixon Jayectin Kasan.

Dagdag pa sa ulat ng Tugunan PNP, hinarang ng mga pulis ang isang Honda XRM na motorsiklo para sa routine inspection.

Sa paunang pagtatanong, napansin umano ng mga operatiba na tila kinakabahan at nanginginig ang back rider, kaya’t pinababa ang parehong drayber at angkas para sa mas masusing inspeksyon.

Sa isinagawang body search, narekober mula sa back rider na kinilalang si Henry Jawjan Pua, residente ng Sitio Patay, Barangay Calawag, Pikit, North Cotabato, ang isang pakete ng sigarilyong “Berlin” na naglalaman umano ng pinaghihinalaang ilegal na droga.

Bago ito tuluyang makuha, sinubukan pa umanong itapon ng suspek ang naturang pakete mula sa harapang bahagi ng kanyang underwear.

Samantala, kinilala naman ang drayber ng habal-habal na si Tannie Guiamalon.

Agad na isinagawa ng mga pulis ang kaukulang dokumentasyon at ipinaalam sa suspek ang kanyang mga karapatang naaayon sa batas.

Dinala rin sa himpilan ang mga nakumpiskang ebidensya para sa tamang disposisyon at karagdagang imbestigasyon.

Patuloy namang pinaaalalahanan ng pulisya ang publiko na makipagtulungan sa mga awtoridad upang mapanatili ang kaayusan at seguridad sa komunidad. (Source: Catholic Station DXMS, Cotabato City, April 12, 2026)

COTABATO CITY (April 12, 2026) —- Agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and policemen shut down another drug den in this city and detained its three operators in an anti-narcotics operation early Sunday, April 12, carried out with the help of barangay and city officials.

The suspects, Esmail Ayob Dalama, 56, Bulljack Guiwan Dalama, 49, and the 45-year-old Toting Dus Dalama, are now in the custody of the PDEA-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Edgar Jubay, PDEA-BARMM’s regional director, told reporters on Sunday afternoon that their agents, backed by operatives from different units of the Cotabato City Police Office, immediately arrested the three men after turning over to them shabu during a tradeoff in right in their drug den in Barangay Poblacion 1 in this city.

Jubay said the operation that led to the arrest of the three men and confiscation from them of P170,000 worth of shabu was based on reports by villagers to barangay officials and to Cotabato City Mayor Bruce Matabalao about their operation of a drug den in Barangay Poblacion 1.

Confidential informants, among them close relatives of the suspects, have confirmed to PDEA-BARMM agents that the three of them connived in facilitating pot sessions for buyers of their illegal merchandise in their drug den.

Under state law, drug den operation is a non-bailable criminal offense.

Agents of the PDEA-BARMM and units of the Cotabato City police, under its director, Col. Jibin Bongcayao, had closed down, in the past 12 months, more than 10 drug dens around in operations enforced with the help of vigilant barangay leaders and the office of Matabalao, who, as mayor, is also presiding chairperson of the city’s multi-sector peace and order council.

Local executives and officials of the Cotabato City police force had assured to help the PDEA-BARMM prosecute the now detained Dalamas for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. [][][]

Tatlong empleyado ng municipal government ng T’boli sa probinya ng South Cotabato ang malubhang nasugatan ng paputukan ng mga kasapi ng Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit sa akalang mga miyembro sila ng New People’s Army nitong gabi ng Huwebes, April 9.

Naganap ang madugong insidente habang nagsasagawa ng checkpoint operation ang ilang mga CAFGU members sa Sitio Spring sa Barangay Poblacion sa T’boli, isang upland municipality sa South Cotabato na sakop ng Region 12.

Mismong local executives at mga kawani ng T’boli Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office ang nagkumpirma nitong Biyernes ng pagkasugat sa naturang insidente nila Delfin Tan Forod, Arlene Sawan Lambong at Rafael Zunio Francisco.

Masuwerteng nakaligtas sa naturang pamamaril kanilang kasamang isang kagawad ng isang barangay sa T’boli na si Alvin Tuan Sacay.

Ayon sa mga local executives at mga imbestigador mula sa T’boli Municipal Police Station, agad na pinaputukan ng combat rifles ng mga CAFGU members sa checkpoint sa Sitio Spring sa Barangay Poblacion ang four-wheel drive na utility task vehicle, o UTV, na sinasakyan ng mga biktima dahil sa hindi nito paghinto sa kabila ng kanilang presensya sa gilid ng highway.

Kinumpirma ng 6th Infantry Division ng Philippine Army ang insidente at nilinaw na “miscommunication” ang siyang nagsanhi nito.

Unang may napatay noong umaga ng Huwebes, sa Barangay Laconon sa T’boli ang mga tropa ng 603rd Infantry Brigade na dalawang mga ranking officials ng NPA, sina Anthony Narvasa, secretary ng Far South Mindanao Region sa Central Mindanao ng naturang teroristang grupo, at ang kanyang assistant na si Rosa Kian.

May isa pang NPA na naiulat na nasugatan sa naturang encounter na nagpatulong diumano sa mga T’boli tribal leaders at mga barangay officials na samahan siya sa 603rd Infantry Brigade upang sumuko at maipagamot.

Ayon sa 6th ID, may tensyon sa T’boli sanhi ng madugong encounter sa Barangay Laconon at nasa full alert hanggang gabi ng Huwebes ang mga sundalo at mga kasapi ng CAFGU sa lahat ng lugar sa naturang bayan.

Sa ulat nitong Sabado ni Major Gen. Jose Vladimir Cagara, commander ng 6th ID, nagsasagawa na sila ng masusing imbestigasyon sa insidenteng nagresulta sa pagkasugat ng tatlong mga kawani ng T’boli local government unit.

May hiwalay na imbestigasyon din na ginagawa, kaugnay ng naturang kaganapan, ang mga units ng Police Regional Office 12 sa pamumuno ni Brig. Gen. Arnold Ardiente na siyang regional director nito. (APRIL 11, 2026)

Nagpulong nitong Huwebes, April 9, sina Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño Mendoza at si Bangsamoro Chief Minister Abdulrauf Macacua sa Cotabato City kaugnay ng kanilang pagtutulungan na maging mapayapa at maunlad ang mga Moro communities sa kanyang probinsya.

May mga baluarte sa Cotabato province ang Moro National Liberation Front at ang Moro Islamic Liberation Front na may mga hiwalay na peace agreements sa Malacañang. Parehong may mga representatives ang MNLF at MILF sa 80-seat parliament ng Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Bago pa man sila nagpulong nitong Huwebes ni Bangsamoro Chief Minister Macacua, na siyang pinaka-mataas na official ng regional government ng BARMM, una ng tiniyak ni Gov. Mendoza, chairperson ng Cotabato Provincial Peace and Order Council, ang kanyang suporta sa mga nakatakdang peace and security activities ng mga regional police offices sa Region 12 at BARMM, ng 602nd Infantry Brigade at ng 6th Infantry Division at ng Commission on Elections kaugnay ng nakatakda ng September 14, 2026 first regional parliamentary elections sa rehiyon.

Bagama’t wala namang partisipasyon ang Cotabato province sa naturang electoral exercise, nais ni Gov. Mendoza na makatulong na maging mapayapa at malinis ang first BARMM elections sa Special Geographic Area sa probinsya na kanyang tinutulungang maging investment destination ng mga investors na pwedeng magtatayo ng mga industriya at mga agricultural projects doon upang makapag-generate ng employment para sa mga residenteng Moro at ng karagdagang revenues para sa kanilang mga local government units.

Kabilang sa mga lugar na saklaw ng September 14 BARMM elections ang walong mga predominantly Moro municipalities sa Special Geographic Area sa Cotabato province na bagamat hindi na sakop Mendoza administration ay patuloy pa rin ang mga basic services nito sa mga Moro communities sa naturang mga bagong tatag na mga bayan.

Sa kanilang dayalogo, muling tiniyak ni Gov. Mendoza kay Macacua, na siyang figurehead ng 80-seat Bangsamoro parliament at siya ring chief ng Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces ng MILF, ang patuloy na serbisyo publiko ng kanyang administrasyon sa mga residente ng walong mga BARMM municipalities sa Special Geographic Area na may 63 barangays na dating sakop ng mga municipalities ng Cotabato province.

Matagal ng ring nagtutulungan sina Gov. Mendoza at at si Macacua sa pagpapalaganap ng religious at cultural solidarity sa mga Muslim, Christian at indigenous non-Moro communities sa Cotabato province.

Si Gov. Mendoza ang siyang presiding chairperson ng multi-sector, inter-agency Regional Peace and Order Council 12 na sakop ang mga probinsya ng Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, South Cotabato, Sarangani at ang mga lungsod ng Kidapawan, Tacurong, Koronadal at General Santos. (APRIL 11, 2026)

Patay sa mga tama ng bala isang Filipina na si Anora Amdan habang sugatan naman ang kanyang mister na Lebanese national sa pamamaril sa intersection ng Sevilla at Pilar Streets sa Zamboanga City ngayong umaga ng Biyernes, April 10, 2026.

Agad na dinala ng mga emergency responders ang sugatang Lebanese na si Fahid Amdan upang malapatan ng lunas.

Mabilis na nakatakas ang mga bumaril sa mag-asawa ayon sa inisyal na ulat ng Zamboanga City Police Station 11.

Inaantabayan pa ang final report ng Zamboanga City Police Office hinggil sa insidente. (April 10, 2026)

Hindi na umabot sa pagamutan ang isang 66-anyos na lalaki habang sugatan naman ang isang 34-anyos na babae matapos silang pagbabarilin nitong Miyerkules, April 8, sa Barangay Poblacion Dalican, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte.

Sa ulat ng DXDM Layag News FM Cotabato City, kinilala ng Datu Odin Sinsuat Municipal Police Station ang nasawing biktima na si Martin Navarro Jr., residente ng Talomo, Davao City, na nagtatrabaho bilang foreman sa isang construction site.

Samantala, patuloy na ginagamot sa ospital si Krisyl Franco, isang estudyante at residente ng Antipas, North Cotabato.

Batay sa imbestigasyon ng PNP, sakay ang mga biktima ng isang payong-payong tricycle nang pagbabarilin sila ng mga hindi pa nakikilalang suspek na sakay ng motorsiklong CRF150 at XR200.

Naganap ang insidente malapit sa public market patungong Barangay Nekitan.

Sa crime scene, nakarekober ang mga awtoridad ng pitong basyo at dalawang hindi pumutok na bala mula sa isang caliber .45 na baril, na pinaniniwalaang ginamit sa pamamaril.

Samantala, naiuwi na ng mga kaanak ang labi ng nasawing biktima, habang patuloy namang nilalapatan ng lunas ang sugatang babae na nagtamo ng matinding tama ng bala sa katawan.

Patuloy ang imbestigasyon ng mga awtoridad upang matukoy ang pagkakakilanlan ng mga salarin at ang motibo sa krimen. (DXDM Layag News FM Cotabato, April 10, 2026, handout photo, Ebs Abang)