ILIGAN CITY (MindaNews/20 April) — Bombs exploded on both sides of Agus Bridge here destroying parts of its steel beams and leaving a crack that could make it collapse anytime.
The bridge, which connects Iligan City to Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and the Zamboanga provinces, has been rendered unsafe for passage.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 April) — Four passengers were wounded when an improvised bomb exploded inside a bus in Kabacan, North Cotabato at around 1:40 p.m., today.
The explosion took place inside a Rural Transit bus with body number 2772 and plate number KVS 700 as it passed in front of Sugni Superstore, which is along the national highway in Barangay Poblacion, Kabacan.
KIDAPAWAN CITY (MindaNews/20 April) – A minor who was among those who escaped from the Cotabato City Jail on Thursday night and who surrendered on Sunday to Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema was not included in the list of escapees submitted earlier by former warden Insp. Panga Arab.
The minor, who is facing a robbery case, brought to 15 the number of escapees.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/20 April) – Consumers in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao will get another relief from the rising prices of commodities through a series of government-led sales caravan of discounted basic and prime consumer goods in key economic centers of the region next month.
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (MindaNews/20 April) – Seven-month old Nuraine Abdulgani, adopted child of former village chief Ismael Abdulgani was recovering from an illness and was in deep sleep at around 1 a.m. Saturday, April 18 when gunshots rang out and bullets pierced the walls of their house in Barangay Tenan.
Nuraine never woke up. One of the bullets hit the side of her body, killing her.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 April) — Want your kids to acquire new skills this summer?
Children from six to 16 can improve their grammar and communicative skills, learn to write news, take photographs, and tell a digital story, during the 3rd GSIS Summer Youth Training Workshop from April 21 to May 2.
IPIL, Zamboanga Sibugay (MindaNews/19 April) – Artemio was closing his small billiard center in front of his house at a little past 10 p.m. on April 4 when a gunshot broke the silence of night. Then another.
“He was already dead when I found him lying on the floor,” Artemio’s wife, Liza said in the dialect.
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/19 April) — Loloy Maquiling stands outside a cockpit in Brgy. Casisang gutted by fire months before. A renovation is ongoing at Malaybalay’s Navarete Sports Complex, but cockfights have continued.
Maquiling and other cockpit aficionados do not know that just across the highway is a place sacred to the early settlers and inhabitants of Bukidnon.
