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Army officer ambushed near army camp in Oro
By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga
UTUAN CITY – Agusan del Norte First District Rep. Lawrence Lemuel Fortun has lamented that since he took his congressional post in 2013, no serious efforts and genuine commitment have been taken to save the Taguibo watershed, the primary source of potable water in this city of 300,000 population.
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
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7 dead, 39 arrested in anti-illegal drug raid By Lilian C. Mellejor of PNA
DAVAO City––At least seven were killed while 39 other suspected illegal drug peddlers were arrested in a joint Coplan Kaagapay operation “Lambat-Sibat”
early Wednesday morning. to implement 36 warrants of arrest to suspected drug pushers, robbers and illegal possession of firearms early morning Wednesday. The joint raiding team, equipped with 39 arrest
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A view of the Ramadhan Village inside the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) compound in Cotabato City, July 13, 2015. MindaNews photo by Ferdinandh Cabrera
Moro culinary delights showcased in Armm village
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COTABATO City––Visitors to the Ramadhan Village inside the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) compound here have had their fill of cultural presentations and a taste of Moro culinary delights every night since the start of the month of fasting on June 16. The Ramadhan village,
also known as “Ramadhan Fair” may be likened to a Christmas village during the yuletide season. After breaking the fast and a prayer called “Tarawi,” visitors would be entertained by various cultural presentations from different tribal villages inside the ARMM compound. “Here you can tour the
region in an hour,” said Samaon Ismael, one of the visitors who joined the congregational prayer Monday night. Visitors can witness a war dance and listen to the melody of kulintang at the Iranon villages. At the nearby Tausug village, they can watch See village, page A11
CAGAYAN de Oro City--A senior army officer survived an early morning ambushed Thursday morning near the region’s largest military camp here, police investigators said. Army Col. Edwin Respicio, of the 10th army reserved command base, was driving his way to the army base when the suspects riding in tandem drove beside his car and pumped bullets hitting him in the face. Police Supt. Lemuel Gonda, chief of the city’s police operation, said that the unidentified gunmen shot Respicio in the suburban village of Patag, home of the army’s 4th Infantry Division, the largest military camp in Northern Mindanao. Respicio, who survived the slay attempt, was taken to a nearby hospital by a taxicab driver who happened to pass by the crime scene prior to the arrival of law enforcers and investigators. See army, page A11
Pluto has 11,000 feet high, young ice mountains: NASA
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which successfully made a historic flyby of Pluto, has discovered young ice mountains on the dwarf planet which are as high as 11,000 feet and about 100 million years old. New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator show a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the See young, page A11
NASA’s close up image of Pluto.