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Cagayan de Oro City
Thursday
May 10, 2012
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17 people die, P30-m worth of property destroyed as fire hits Butuan City
Official wants probe on fatal fire incident By PAT SAMONTE, Regional Editor-Caraga, JOEL PORTUGAL, Correspondent and ARJAY FELICILDA, Correspondent
BUTUAN City––Acting Mayor Lawrence Lemuel Fortun is calling for an investigation into the fatal fire incident that killed over a dozen of people at dawn yesterday. Fortun, who was at the fire scene, said an investigation on reports of noncompliance with fire or emergency exit requirement by business establishments was in order. As presiding officer of the city council, Fortun said the tolls in the fire in terms of lives and property losses deserved to be looked into by the local legislative body. “The huge number of fatalities was unprecedented in the city’s history,” he
added. Some 17 people were killed while three others survived a conflagration that destroyed several business establishments on Montilla Boulevard in Barangay Humabon here. Authorities were still determining the fatalities’ identities as firefighters were still clearing the fire scene. SFO2 Alex Suarez said 11 bodies have been initially retrieved by personnel of FIRE/PAGE 9
4 soldiers injured in NPA clash in Agsur By AL JACINTO, Regional Editor-Zamboanga
DAVAO City––Four government soldiers were wounded in a clash with communist rebels in Agusan del Sur province in the southern Philippines, officials said Tuesday. Officials said the soldiers were sent to the village of Salvacion in Trento town after residents tipped off the military about the presence of New People’s Army rebels in the area. Troops clashed with rebels after they ran into a group of some 30 gunmen in the village and the fighting lasted about an hour, according to Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, a spokesman for the 10th Infantry Division. He said soldiers also recovered landmines and grenade left behind by rebels. “Troops recovered three landmines, one hand grenade and several personal belongings,” Paniza said. Some 50 families have fled their homes in the town for fear the fighting between security and rebel forces would escalate. The villagers are now temporarily staying in Pulang Lupa village. The NPA is fighting for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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China begins drilling for oil
CHINESE state media say the country’s first deepwater oil drilling rig has begun operations in the South China Sea. The official Xinhua news agency says the rig began drilling for oil Wednesday at a depth of 1,500 meters in an area located about 320 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong. The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp, which operates the rig, called the moment a “substantial step” for China’s deep-sea oil industry. Its oil production and exploration had previously been limited to a depth of 300 meters. China relies heavily on imported oil to fuel its economy. But it has been more aggressive in recent months in staking its territorial claims in the South FIREMEN try to put out the fire that gutted commercial establishments on Montilla China Sea, which is thought Boulevard in Barangay Humabon in Butuan City at around 3:35 in the morning to have huge oil and gas Wednesday. Photo by Manuel M. Egay Jr. reserves. The deep-sea drilling area does not appear to be EATHER PDATE in a disputed part of the MINDANAO will experience mostly cloudy skies South China Sea. But just with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms to the southeast, China has due to a trough of a low pressure area. The been locked in a month-long rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in standoff with the Philippines the afternoon or evening. Light to moderate winds blowing from the over an uninhabited group southeast to south will prevail over Northern and Central Luzon, east of islands. to southeast over the rest of Luzon and Visayas and coming from The standoff began on the east to northeast over Mindanao. The coastal waters throughout April 10 when Chinese the archipelago will be slight to moderate. CHINA/PAGE 9 SOURCE : PAGASA
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Clannish war breaks out On Oro’s in Lanao del Sur, 12 hurt drainage projects
A CLANNISH war between two feuding families broke out Monday in the Moslem dominated province of Lanao del Sur leaving 12 people hurt that triggered mass evacuation in the area, police said Wednesday. Police Supt. Romeo Magsalos, Lanao del Sur police provincial director, said about 16 heavily armed
men attacked the village of Macauranding, located in the borders of Malabang and Marugong, in Lanao del Sur that triggered a two-hour firefight leaving 12 persons hurt, four of whom are in the hospital. He said a peacekeeping force have been deployed in the borders of Malabang and Marugong towns in Lanao
del Sur to prevent the escalation of the family feud. According to Magsalos, the local police and the Muslim religious community have sent emissaries to the warring clans to convince them to cease firing. “So far, the conflict had died down, hopefully we will succeed in arranging HURT/PAGE 9
NEW drainage systems are now being constructed in the main thoroughfares of Region 10. Presently, there are four major drainage projects in Cagayan de Oro City. Two of these are under contract with Jejors PROJECTS/PAGE 9
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