MINDANAO DAILY T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E LO P M E N T
Volume VI, No. 262
Website: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Tuesday
April 18, 2017
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Army soldiers bury cadavers of NPA rebs By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN Francisco, Agusan del Sur--The decomposing cadavers of two New Peoples Army guerillas who were killed in an encounter with Army soldiers on Maundy Thursday in the jungles of San Luis town were buried in the nearest village the following day. 2nd Lieutenant Romel Arnado, Civilian-Military Officer of the 26th Infantry Brigade, said they decided to carry the still unidentified slain NPA rebels towards a nearby village of San Vicente in Esperanza town where they buried them there as their bodies started to emit obnoxious smell. Arnado described the casualties to be 30 years old who were killed when the Army troopers condicted a surprise assault in the NPA encampment where some 70 rebels were living on temporary wooden bunkers planting vegetables small gardens and stocked some 35 sacks of rice as food supplies. “We believe the dead bodies have families that we should have brought to them but there was no word yet from the NPA so we decided to give them See BURY, page 7
NO TO FAKE NEWS. By signing the “Covenant to Stop Fake News”, students and educators commit themselves and vow “to refrain from posting or sharing any bit of information that we have not verified to be accurate and truthful — and to have originated from reliable and responsible sources. This, even if such information may seem to confirm what we, or the larger segments of society, think, feel, or believe”. Close to 200 participants from various schools in Baguio, Benguet, Abra, and Pangasinan attended the Scholastic Press Program of the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) and Nickel Asia Corporation (NAC) on “Let’s Get Real on Fake News” at the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City. The same seminar will be conducted in Batangas, Bulacan, NCR and other areas in Visayas and Mindanao.
Huge oarfish dies in In Wao, moms rush to rescue ‘angel’ kids shores of Sarangani as tremors disrupt Easter Sunday ritual
By Carolyn O. Arguillas MindaNews
By Allen V. Estabillo, PNA
GENERAL Santos City--Fishermen recovered before dawn Monday a huge oarfish near the shores of Kiamba town in Sarangani Province, the first for the area in years. Carmelo Velasco, Kiamba municipal environment and natural resources officer, said the rare fish was spotted by fishermen swimming off Purok Kiblis in Barangay Lomuyon at around 4:30 a.m. but later died and washed ashore. He said the oarfish was initially seen swimming near the shore and “appeared to be already at a weak state.” “Not long after it was spotted, (the oarfish) See oarfish, page 7
DAVAO City––A magnitude 4.3 and 5.2 tremor three minutes apart before 5 a.m. disrupted, although briefly, an Easter Sunday ritual in Wao, Lanao del Sur, as moms rushed to rescue their children who played the role of angels, the parish priest said. Fr. Flordelito “Yrap” TREMORS IN WAO. Tarpaulins distributed on April 15 at the Serran Elementary School in Wao, Lanao del Sur, where several families have been spending the night Nazareno told since the April 12 quake. Photo courtesy of DSWD Region 12 April 15 report to Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo
See tremors, page 7