ISABELA CITY, Basilan , Philippines – Police and military locked down yesterday the entire city of Isabela in the aftermath of Abu Sayyaf attacks that left 15 people dead and several others wounded.
Road blocks were set up in and around the impoverished city of 150,000 people, security forces on foot patrol manned the perimeter and at least two military armored personnel carriers were seen moving along mai
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MANILA, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will lodge a complaint against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for allowing its fighters to join Abu Sayyaf extremists in the gun battle with government troops in Basilan last Wednesday.
Military information chief Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner said the AFP will file the complaint against the MILF’s 114th Base Command in Basilan before the joi
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MANILA, Philippines – Intense firefights between government forces and Abu Sayyaf bandits in Basilan since Wednesday have killed 54 people and left 22 others wounded, the military said yesterday.
Navy spokesman Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo said 31 Abu Sayyaf bandits were killed while the government forces suffered 23 casualties. Two of the fatalities were junior officers.
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COTABATO CITY , Philippines – A militiaman was killed and 11 people – five of them policemen – were wounded in two bombings and an ambush in Ma-guindanao yesterday.
Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner, Armed Forces spokesman, said military intelligence has warned of more bombings in Central Mindanao.
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MANILA – After nearly six months in the hands of Abu Sayyaf bandits, freed International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) worker Eugenio Vagni left for Italy Wednesday morning.
Reports received by ABS-CBN News said Vagni took the KLM flight 804 at 10:45 am at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) bound for Amsterdam.
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MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo has activated a 24-hour command center of the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) even as officials maintain that Metro Manila is in no immediate danger of being attacked by extremists.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, who chairs the ATC, has been designated the official spokesperson on the current national security situation.
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MANILA, Philippines – No one has owned up to the spate of recent bombings in several areas in Mindanao that has reportedly killed over seven people and injured dozens of others. But two of the three bomb sites have left tantalizing clues: fragments of mortar shells.
According to the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), the Cotabato City bombers used an 81mm mortar shell in their improvised explosiv
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MANILA, Philippines – The National Capital Region Command (NCRCOM), the Metro Manila-based anti-coup military force, placed its troops on red alert yesterday to prevent a possible spillover of the Mindanao bombings in the capital region.
The National Capital Regional Police Office (NCRPO) also moved to monitor threat groups to prevent similar attacks in the metropolis.
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MANILA, Philippines – Two separate bombings in Jolo and Iligan City on Tuesday morning killed six people and injured around 40 others, including state security personnel, officials said.
Philippine Marines commandant Maj. Gen. Ben Dolorfino said the first explosion occurred when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off at 7:55 a.m. Tuesday in Poblacion village in front of the Go Teck Leng Hardware along
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Another blast hit the predominantly Muslim town of Jolo in Sulu province, Tuesday morning. An initial report received by ABS-CBN News said the blast took place in downtown Jolo shortly before 8 a.m.
A radio dzMM report said one person died and two persons, including a policeman, was hurt in the blast.
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