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Responding policemen, led by Senior Superintendent Sangacala Dampac, the city’s police chief, cornered one of the two wounded suspects, Alvin Abedin, at the Cotabato Regional Medical Hospital.


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The victim, Oscar Ramos, whose wife Socorro is an assistant director of NEDA in Region 12, was reportedly whiling away his time outside their house when the gunman casually approached and shot him in the head with a pistol.


Senior Superintendent Sangacala Dampac, city police chief, said he has fielded intelligence agents to help solve the killing of Ramos, a key technical staffer of NEDA-Region12.


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Senior Superintendent Sangacala Dampac, city police chief, said the bomb, fashioned from incendiary chemicals rigged with a timing device, was planted in one of the buildings inside the DOTC’s Region12 compound in a residential area here.


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Vincent Bahilidan, son of a businessman based here, broke the glass windows of his abductors’ safehouse in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao, jumped out and ran to safety.


Cotabato City police director Senior Superintendent Sangacala Dampac said the Pentagon’s safehouse is located at a residential area in Salimbao, a densely populated district of Sultan Kudarat town.


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2 Pentagon ‘members’ wounded in shootout

By John Unson | January 21, 2003 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY – Two alleged members of the Pentagon kidnapping syndicate were wounded when an Indian merchant whose car they were supposed to steal, shot it out with them the other day. Responding policemen,...

Nation

Ex-Kudarat mayor, 3 aides die in ambush

By John Unson | November 2, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY – A former mayor of Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat and his three aides were killed in an ambush by ski mask-wearing men here Thursday night.

Nation

NEDA exec shot dead in Cotabato

September 30, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — A lone gunman shot dead a key regional official of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) at a busy area here the other day. The victim, Oscar Ramos, whose wife Socorro is an assistant...

Nation

Assassins confused by mayor’s having 2 wives

July 21, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY – Having two wives proved beneficial to a Maguindanao town mayor whose supposed killers got confused on his whereabouts the other night, and attacked the residence here of his first wife while...

Nation

‘Put blast suspects under DSWD care’

May 6, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — The local religious sector has called on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to place under its custody the five suspects, all minors, in last Wednesday’s bombing of...

Nation

Internal squabble behind bomb blast?

May 1, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY — A bomb blast rocked the regional office of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) here at midnight Monday, in what probers said could be rooted in the squabble of two key...

Nation

Abducted boy escapes from Pentagon lair

By John Unson | March 24, 2002 - 12:00am

COTABATO CITY – A determined 13-year-old boy staged a daring escape from the hands of the Pentagon kidnap gang, which abducted him in this city Friday night. Vincent Bahilidan, son of a businessman based here,...

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