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| 6 died, 7 hurt in road collision Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:03 AM PDT SIX people died while seven others were wounded in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a truck along the national highway in Zamboanga del Norte, the police reported Thursday, June 30, 2022.PoLice Major Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula information officer, said the incident took place around 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, along the national highway at Sitio Guisokan in Doña Josefa village, Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte.Chang said that five of the six fatalities were identified while the sixth one was unidentified. They were Mario Macatual, Joseph Lopena, Analisa Maribojoc, Princess Gold Ejan Sangilan, and Julie Jay Sumonglay.Of the seven wounded, Chang said that only four were identified and they are Saturnino Tagulod, Flora Mae Antoc, Sany Boy Rubayan, and Izan Luz.The rest of the injured victims were passenger of the truck. Chang said investigation showed that the two vehicles collided when Macatual lost control of the sterring wheel of the truck and encroached the opposite lane after a break malfunction.She said that the ambulance driven by Lopena with seven passengers aboard was traveling from the town of Liloy to Dipolog City, the capital of Zamboanga del Norte, at the time of the accident.Tagulod and Antoc were the only passengers of the ambulance who survived the collision. (SunStar Zamboanga) |
| Bomb courier killed in a shootout Posted: 30 Jun 2022 03:02 AM PDT A BOMB courier, formerly associated with the Abu Sayyaf bandits, was killed while another escaped in a shootout with government troops in Lamitan City, Basilan province, the military reported Thursday, June 30, 2022.Brigadier General Domingo Gobway, Joint Task Force (JTF)-Basilan commander, said Adil Akarab was killed in a shootout with the troops around 9:13 p.m. Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in Sabong village, Lamitan City.Gobway said that before the shootout, the 18th Infantry Battalion (IB) troopers received an information that two lawless elements will be transporting an improvised explosive device (IED) from Tipo-Tipo town to the City of Lamitan.He said the shootout ensued as the troops of the 18IB caught the suspects in pursuit operation launched after the motorcycle-riding bomb couriers evaded checkpoint of the Dagao Patrol Based in Tipo-Tipo and sped towards this city.He said the troops recovered a sack containing an IED and an M-16 Armalite rifle with ammunition.The main charge of the ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO)-type of bomb were two 60-millimeter mortar shells.Gobway said that the other suspect, who was driving the motorcycle, managed to escape and fled towards Baas village, Lamitan City.Security forces have tightened security in the province following the June 20 bomb explosion in front of Lamitan City Hall.On May 31, two people were injured when two bombs exploded one after the other in Isabela City, the capital of the province. (SunStar Zamboanga) |
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