Military and police officials claimed two members of an elite Army unit got killed in an anti-narcotics operation that went haywire early on Thursday, September 29, in Isabela City, Basilan.
Three soldiers were killed when heavily-armed men attacked an Army detachment in Barangay Magcawa in Al-Barka, Basilan on Thursday afternoon. September 15.
Defense Secretary Jose Faustino, Jr. has committed support to rehabilitate former Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members in Basilan who have returned to the fold of law.
Officials have inaugurated on Thursday, September 8, the 50 “houses on stilts” built together by the office of the late former Lamitan City Mayor Rose Furigay and the National Housing Authority (NHA).
Three villagers were killed while three others were wounded, including a child, in a gun attack in Sumisip town, Basilan before dawn Thursday, September 8.
Military, police, and local government officials have vowed to maximize cooperation in maintaining peace in Lamitan City and towns around Basilan.
Two feuding Moro groups that figured in a clash in Lamitan City on Tuesday, August 30, have disengaged to pave the way for mediation by local authorities.
A senior official of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and provincial leaders inaugurated on Wednesday, August 24, seven projects in Basilan, seen to boost productivity of farmers, among them hundreds of former Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members.
The provincial police director of Zamboanga del Norte died before dawn on Wednesday, August 3, hours after his subordinates rushed him to a hospital for dizziness, chest pain and headache.
Hundreds of mourners joined the funeral rite for the slain Lamitan City Mayor Rose Furigay on Wednesday, August 3.
