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Volume VII, No. 054
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2 int’l MMA fighters killed in road mishap By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Two international Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters lost the fight when killed by a speeding taxicab here early Sunday, the police
said Monday. Police investigators identified the fatalities as Rocky Tune Batolbatol and his cousin Gener Ponce, both MMA international fighters. Batolbatol was scheduled to fight in Indonesia on July 29, 2017.
The police had arrested the driver identified as Gerson Bersabal, 26, of Zayas, Carmen, Cagayan De Oro who said that he did not see the victims who was crossing, using the pedestrian lane at that time. “I did not see them im-
Protesters from Normin held in checkpoints, delayed by traffic jam By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City-Thousands of individuals belonging to various militant groups in Northern Mindanao were held in police and military checkpoints along the national highway going to Iligan City to attend a protest action
there in time for President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the National Address (Sona) Tuesday afternoon. About 3,000 of protesters from this city, Bukidnon and Misamis Oriental were on 38 board trucks and vans when they were stopped at checkpoints in Barangay Bulua here, in Opol, and El Salvador City.
The delegates were from the progressive groups Bayan, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, League of Filipino Students, Kalumbay, Kadamay, Kilusang Mayo Uno, Union of People’s Lawyers in Mindanao, church workers, among others. It was at a checkpoint in Opol when they were
See TRAFFIC, page 11
mediately because it was very dark and raining,” Bersabal told the police while admitting that he was running a 90- kilometerper hour. The hood and the windshield of the taxi cab, See MISHAP, page 11
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Duterte calls for passage of national land use act
Centenarian Sergio Sudaria of barangay Patrocinio, Claveria, Misamis Oriental was recognized by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 10 and the municipality of Claveria during its 67th Araw ng Claveria last Saturday after the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office under Raul Penton, who is in charge of the senior citizens program, reviewed his documents and after thorough examination, endorsed him as a verified centenarian from Misamis Oriental. photo supplied
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