PH Army, US National Guards complete training in Cagayan de Oro
The Philippine Army and the United States National Guards of Hawaii completed a four-day Signal Operations and Leadership Development Training at Camp Evangelista, headquarters of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division (4ID), in Barangay Patag, Cagayan de Oro City last Sunday.
Lt. Colonel Francisco Garello Jr., chief of the 4ID public affairs office, said the US National Guardsmen and the Army soldiers learned basic military communications, relaying commands and engaging in situational awareness.
Garello said more than 40 Philippine soldiers and US National Guardsmen participated in the exercise.
Death toll due to floods in the BARMM rises to 6
The death toll in the floods caused by the southwest monsoons in the Bangsamoro Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) has reached six after a 22-year-old farmer drowned while trying to save his cow in Pagalungan town in Maguindanao del Sur on Sunday.
Benjamin Alip, of the municipal risk reduction and management office of Pagalungan, said the farmer drowned in Barangay Damalasak.
The heavy rains forced thousands of residents to evacuate to higher grounds in the two Maguindanao provinces.
Earlier, Nyll Isaiah Tapia, spokesperson of the Office of Civil Defense in the BARMM, said five persons, including two children, drowned in the town of Matanog at the height of the floods last Friday.
Joefel Delicana, spokesperson of the BARMM’s disaster management unit, said the calamity affected 94,395 residents in the region.
35 wanted persons nabbed in Caraga police operation
Policemen in the Caraga Region launched a 10-day operation that netted 35 persons wanted by the law, including an alleged rapist who is the most wanted person in Butuan City.
Brig. Gen. Alan Nazarro, Caraga PNP regional director, said that of those arrested, five are listed as most wanted persons.
Nazarro said 11 of those arrested in the operation conducted from July 1 to 10 came from Butuan City, nine from Surigao del Sur, six from Surigao del Norte, five from Agusan del Sur, and four from Agusan del Norte.
