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| ==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]== | | ==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]== |
| '''ARMM rites begin with free live telecast of Pacquiao's fight''' | | '''Armed men in Sultan Kudarat storms store, kills 5''' |
| *Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/341041/armm-rites-begin-with-free-live-telecast-pacquiaos-fight | | *Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/341087/armed-men-sultan-kudarat-storms-store-kills-5 |
| *November 12, 2011, 6:26pm | | *November 13, 2011, 11:00am |
| :by ALI G. MACABALANG | | :by AARON RECUENCO |
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| COTABATO CITY, Philippines – For the third time, the 20-month-old administration of Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Acting Governor Ansaruddin Alonto-Adiong will provide free live telecast of Sunday’s fight between Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao and Mexican challenger Juan Manuel Marquez as an opening highlight of the weeklong celebration of the 22nd ARMM foundation anniversary.
| | MANILA, Philippines -- Terror greeted the usual peaceful Saturday morning in a small residential community in Sultan Kudarat after a group of armed men stormed a small store and killed five members of a family in the area, a police official revealed Sunday. |
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| More spectators are expected to swarm the venue at the refurbished Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Center (SKCC) inside the ARMM compound here. Free snacks await viewers, Regional Executive Secretary Naguib Sinarimbo said.
| | Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz, Jr., spokesman of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said it was a cold-blooded killing since all the five victims were peppered with bullets while they were slumped on the floor of the store in Sitio Bagang-Bagang, Barangay Midtungok in Sen. Ninoy Aquino town. |
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| “This (live telecast of Pacquiao’s fight) would be the third time the Adiong administration will host for our residents of ARMM and nearby areas in 20 months. This time, the free show and snacks would more meaningful because it kicks off our 22nd anniversary celebration from November 14 to 19,” Sinarimbo said.
| | The victims were identified as Julie Pegurak 47; Josephine Pegurak 45; Jonathan Pegurak; Jerson Pegurak; and, a certain Benjamin Pelitro. |
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| The fully air-conditioned SKCC building has a sitting capacity of 870, but over 2,000 spectators swarmed the edifice in the last two ARMM-sponsored free live shows of Pacquiao fights. Giant TV units were installed at the covered lobby of the building to accommodate hundreds more viewers of Sunday’s event, organizers said.
| | Cruz said only five gunmen were allegedly seen storming, all of them wearing bonnets. |
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| Before the free live showing of the Pacquiao-Marquez match and its undercard fights, viewers would be shown a video documentation of the highlights of the trailblazing accomplishments of the Adiong administration in 20 months, they said.
| | A separate report revealed that the five gunmen were backed up by at least 15 others. |
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| On Monday, officials and workers of the entire regional bureaucracy will hold a colorful parade around the 22-hectare ARMM complex here to formally open the region’s 22nd founding anniversary celebration.
| | “The victims were shot while lying face down, they all died on the spot,” said Cruz, adding that incident happened at around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday. |
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| Various festive activities have been lined up for the weeklong celebration, including a jobs fair, free medical, dental and optical check-ups and medicines, sport games, cultural presentations, and a musical program organized by local journalists, among others, Sinarimbo said.
| | Recovered in the crime scene were 62 spent shells and three bullets for Garand and M16 rifles. |
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| “The 22nd ARMM foundation celebration is more significant this time because it provides us the appropriate avenue to feast over the unprecedented achievements of the Adiong leadership and pay tribute to all individuals and groups that helped us make the difference,” he said.
| | The official said robbery immediately surfaced as the motive since the gunmen reportedly carted away some cash and other materials from the store owned by the victims. |
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| The successes of the Adiong administration in bringing normalcy back in ARMM and Maguindanao after the infamous Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of 57 people including 32 journalists, and in winning back the trust of the regional populace and the foreign donors’ community are “worth giving the best celebration,” Sinarimbo said. | | The investigation revealed that the gunmen took two chainsaws, cash amounting to P40,000 and grocery items. |
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| The Social Weather Station (SWS) released on Oct. 10 the results of a survey commissioned by the Department of Interior and Local Governments alongside the Asian Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), showing that 63 percent of the ARMM constituents were “satisfied” with the incumbents’ performance, with only 18 percent “dissatisfied.”
| | Police and military operatives were sent in the area to hunt down the gunmen who were last monitored moving towards Palembang town also in Sultan Kudarat. |
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| The survey result gave credence to earlier expressed “satisfactory” ratings of the operations of the Adiong administration by several foreign donor-institutions including the USAID, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the Australian government, and agencies of the European Union and the United Nations.
| | Ragtag bandits roaming around remote areas in Mindanao have been a security problem for the police, some of them are engaged in robbery, extortion and even kidnap-for-ransom activities. |
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| Meanwhile, thousands of boxing fans and avid followers of Pacquiao in Davao City will be treated anew with a “ringside view” Sunday when the ring sensation faces off for the third time with his Mexican nemesis at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (With a report from PNA)
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| ==Photo Gallery of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines== | | ==Photo Gallery of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines== |