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18 - 08 - 2017
Bomb blast kills man in restive south Philippines
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02 - 07 - 2011
Five Hurt in Roadside Bombing in Southern Philippines
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03 - 03 - 2011
16 Prisoners Flee Jail in Southern Philippine City
Sixteen prisoners, most of them facing robbery and murder charges, escaped Thursday from a jail in a southern Philippine city, a local official said. According to dpa, the detainees sawed off the iron grills of their cell in Cotabato City Jail, 960 (...)

20 - 01 - 2011
Diarrhea downs 209 people in N. Cotabato
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04 - 06 - 2010
Solider killed in Philippines gunfight
A gunfight between leftist rebels and the military in the southern Philippines left a Filipino soldier dead and another injured, a military official said. Fighting erupted at the encampment of the New People's Army in the village of Baylo in the (...)

06 - 03 - 2010
Two policemen killed in attack in southern Philippines
Two policemen were killed by unidentified gunmen in a southern Philippine province, a regional police chief said Saturday, DPA reported. Chief Superintendent Joel Goltiao said the victims were on board a van when they were attacked by gunmen (...)

15 - 03 - 2008
Woman killed, five hurt in grenade blast in southern Philippines
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04 - 01 - 2008
Four killed in road accident in southern Philippines
Four people were killed and 35 others injured when a passenger minibus plunged into a ravine in the southern Philippines, a town official said Monday, according to dpa. The minibus was negotiating a sharp downhill curve on Saturday when its (...)

09 - 07 - 2007
Philippine police deploy marshals in passenger buses amid bombings
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16 - 06 - 2007
Two bomb blasts hit southern Philippine city, two dead
Two bomb attacks rocked a southern Philippine city on Wednesday, killing at least two people, police said. The first blast occurred inside a residential subdivision in Cotabato City, 930 kilometres south of Manila, killing two people, according (...)

18 - 04 - 2007
Five people dead as truck plunges into ravine in Philippines
At least five people were killed on Tuesday and 17 others injured when a truck plunged into a ravine in the southern Philippines, a police report said. The victims were aboard the ill-fated truck on their way to attend the wake of a dead relative (...)

10 - 04 - 2007
Police arrest two suspected kidnappers in southern Philippines
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31 - 03 - 2007
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28 - 10 - 2006
Nine people killed in diarrhoea outbreak in southern Philippines
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04 - 06 - 2005
Muslim rebels to pursue self-rule in talks with Manila
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30 - 05 - 2005
Two soldiers injured in clash with communist rebels in Philippines
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10 - 02 - 2005
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18 - 10 - 2004
Muslim rebels promise to achieve peace with Philippine government
Muslim separatist rebels said Saturday they are determined to peacefully resolve their three-decade rebellion in the southern Philippines. Mohaqher Iqbal, chief peace negotiator for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, said rebel leaders (...)

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