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The killing of Teofilo Albores, chairman of Barangay Poblacion III, has raised indignation among various sectors, which are now clamoring for a major revamp in the city police force. 


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PENRO Kahal Kedtag was on his way home on board his vehicle from the office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in the 32-hectare compound of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao when he was fired at with assault rifles, police said.


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Senior Inspector Samsom Obatay, commander of the city’s Police Special Operations Group, said the suspect, Bayan Kabalu, died from multiple gunshot wounds.


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Senior Inspector Samsom Obatay, chief of the police Precinct IV, identified the fatality as Aisa Ismael, 21, and the wounded as her six-year-old brother Abdulhamid and nephew Nur.


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Popular Cotabato City barangay head shot dead

By John Unson | September 17, 2006 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Three suspected hired killers gunned down a popular barangay chairman here Thursday night, the seventh to be brutally felled by assassin’s bullets in recent years. The killing of Teofilo...

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Maguindanao DENR chief hurt in attack; driver slain

By John Unson | June 30, 2006 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — The provincial environment and natural resources officer (PENRO) of Maguindanao was wounded in an ambush in a supposedly well-guarded district here Wednesday afternoon, but his driver was killed...

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Kabalu’s brother killed in drug raid

By John Unson | November 9, 2005 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — Lawmen shot dead a brother of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) spokesman Eid Kabalu during an anti-narcotics raid that sparked a firefight with drug traffickers at a secluded village here...

Nation

Nursing student killed in blast

September 28, 2005 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — An improvised explosive hurled by a motorcycle-riding man went off in a store here last Monday night, killing a graduating nursing student and wounding two children. Senior Inspector Samsom...

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