Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 05:29:57 +0000
The death toll from “Usman” rose to 68 with the number of fatalities expected to climb even higher, civil defense officials said Monday.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 11:03:01 +0000
A soldier was killed while two others were hurt after they were attacked by NPA members in a Northern Samar town, the military said Saturday.
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Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:45:26 +0000
“Simbolo ito ng katapangan ng mga Pilipino (This is a symbol of the Filipino bravery).”
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President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the deployment of additional troops to different provinces to suppress “sporadic acts of violence.”
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A former mayor of a Samar town, who is running in next year’s elections, survived an attempt to his life.
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The ground commanders of the police unit involved in the bloody wrong encounter in Samar have been relieved of their duties, the regional police chief of Eastern Visayas said on Wednesday.
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The joint panel of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of National Defense (DND) will summon uniformed officials to explain the bloody misencounter between the police and military in Samar, Interior Officer-in-Charge Sec. Eduardo M. Año said Tuesday. Año said the joint DILG-DND Board of Inquiry (BOI) would let police and military officials explain why prior communication and coordination were not made between forces conducting operations in the area.
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