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SealOfZamboangaCity Zamboangueño 12:13:17 pm on January 9, 2022 @ 12:13:17 pm  

Army enlists ‘Tausug’ plane crash first responder

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.

DREAM COME TRUE. Former construction worker Erham Awaluddin (left) poses in this undated photo in Sulu with PFC Ganney Ligayan, whom he saved from a burning plane that crashed in the island province’s Sitio Amman, Barangay Bangkal, Patikul on July 4, 2021. As one of the first responders during the incident, Awaluddin’s dream of becoming a soldier came true when he got accepted as a Private at the Army’s 11th Infantry Division. (Photo courtesy of the 11th Infantry Division Public Affairs Office)

ZAMBOANGA CITY – It was a dream come true for Erham Awaluddin, then a construction worker in Patikul, Sulu, to become a soldier.

Unknown to Awaluddin, his effort by risking his life as a first responder in the July 2021 C-130 “Hercules” plane crash would help him fulfill his Continue reading →

SealOfZamboangaCity Zamboangueño 12:09:21 pm on January 9, 2022 @ 12:09:21 pm  

Another P600-K smuggled cigarettes seized in Zambo Peninsula

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Security forces have intercepted another shipment of smuggled cigarettes worth PHP590,000, bringing to more than PHP2.4 million the contrabands seized during the past two days in Region 9, authorities said Friday.

Brig. Gen. Franco Simborio, Police Regional Office-Zamboanga Peninsula (PRO-9) director, said the latest batch of assorted smuggled cigarettes shipment was seized on midnight Thursday in Barangay Buenavista, this city.

“Before the confiscation, troopers from the Army’s 74th Infantry Battalion’s Bravo Company were conducting a Continue reading →

SealOfZamboangaCity Zamboangueño 12:05:18 pm on January 9, 2022 @ 12:05:18 pm  

Comelec to set up gun ban checkpoints in Zambo City

By Teofilo Garcia, Jr.

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Commission on Elections (Comelec), together with the security forces, is setting up fixed checkpoints in strategic places at the start of the gun ban here on January 9.

The gun ban is pursuant to Comelec Resolution Numbers 10728 and 10741 promulgated on Nov. 10, 2021 and Dec. 16, 2021, respectively.

Lawyer Stephen Roy Cañete, first district election officer, said Saturday the fixed checkpoints will be set up in main thoroughfares leading to the city proper to ensure compliance with the gun ban. Continue reading →