(UPDATE as of 6pm) PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley – Nineteen of the 40 persons earlier reported missing in Friday morning’s landslide in Barangay Kingking have been accounted for as of 6pm, leaving only 21 missing. A total of nine persons have
PANTUKAN, Compostela Valley (MindaNews/22 April) – A 15-year old boy was killed, 40 others are still missing while 11 have been rescued in a landslide that struck a small-scale mining area in Barangay Kingking at around 2:30 Friday morning. Data from the Incident Command Post fronting the town hall here showed that initial reports on the landslide reached the Municipal Disaster Risk Reducation and Management Council (MDRRMC) at around 8 a.m.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/21 April) — “His comforting presence willsurely be missed,” President Benigno Simeon Aquino III said of his“Tito Chito,” Jesus V. Ayala, who, he said, “was always giving…without expecting anything in return all this time.” Aquino arrived at the
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 April) – For the third straight year, police officials and personnel in Region 12 or Southwestern Mindanao will stage a reenactment of the traditional Seven Stations of the Cross here in observance of Good Friday. Senior
Last of three parts SOMEWHERE IN MAGUINDANAO (MindaNews/21 April) — Since he set up the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), Ustadz Amiril Umra Kato said several persons have tried linking up with him, including Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founder
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 Apr) – When Catholics here went to attend Mass last Palm Sunday, they found fewer coconut leaves woven like the palm braids waived in Jerusalem when Jesus entered the city before His passion at the cross. It’s
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/21 Apr) – The national government has already poured in more than a billion pesos worth of socio-economic investments in various impoverished communities in Mindanao through the implementation of its flagship anti-poverty initiatives in the last eight
