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[ArticleID] => 236685
[Title] => Evidence vs Parang blast suspect lacking
[Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A state prosecutor has ordered the release from the Maguindanao provincial jail of a key suspect in the Jan. 4 bombing in Parang town that left 22 people dead, for lack of evidence linking him to the crime.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-28 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => John Unson
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[ArticleID] => 235960
[Title] => Separate NBI probe on Parang blast urged
[Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — Victims of the Jan. 4 bombing here have called on President Arroyo to order the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to conduct a separate inquiry into the incident, alleging that the suspects whom local authorities have implicated were mere "fall guys."
The blast, the worst-ever in this town’s history, killed 22 people, mostly members of influential Muslim families, and wounded 71 others, including the town’s re-electionist mayor, Vivencio Bataga.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-22 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 235880
[Title] => Three suspects in Parang blast found dead
[Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — The bullet-riddled bodies of three suspects in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game here have turned up in different places in the town and nearby areas over the weekend.
Police said the body of Zairudin Manindeg was the latest to be discovered among the three suspects who were all believed to have been summarily executed.
Another suspect, Ariel Macapaar, a member of the Iranon tribe, was shot dead by still unidentified gunmen in a farming village in nearby Matanog town, less than a week after the bombing.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-21 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 235738
[Title] => Two more suspects in Parang bombing fall
[Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Authorities arrested the other day two more suspects in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game in Parang, Maguindanao that killed 22 people and caused serious injuries to 71 others, among them the town’s re-electionist mayor, Vivencio Bataga.
Bataga, chairman of the municipal peace and order council, identified the suspects as Khalid Macapaar and a certain Omar, both nabbed by lawmen in a secluded barangay in Matanog, Maguindanao.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-20 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 235381
[Title] => Suspect in Maguindanao bombing cries torture
[Summary] => COTABATO CITY — A suspect in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball court in Parang, Maguindanao called on President Arroyo yesterday to intervene in his case as he was allegedly tortured by soldiers to implicate two key political leaders in the incident.
Officials of the Maguindanao provincial jail said the suspect, Kusain Taha, earlier identified as Omar Ramalan, was turned over to them already injured and "blindfolded" by members of the military police.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-17 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => John Unson
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[ArticleID] => 234855
[Title] => Central Mindanao leaders seek deeper probe into Parang bombing
[Summary] => COTABATO CITY — Religious and political leaders in Central Mindanao called yesterday on the police and the military to conduct a "deeper probe" into the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game in Parang, Maguindanao that killed 22 people and left 71 others wounded.
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) police, meanwhile, are set to file criminal charges today against Omar Romalan, a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) who had been implicated in the attack.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-12 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 234729
[Title] => Former MNLF commander held for Parang blast
[Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — The military has detained a former commander of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) implicated in the Jan. 4 bombing of a basketball game here that killed 22 people.
Omar Ramalan, also known as Commander Bagi-Bagi and a resident of nearby Matanog, Maguindanao, was arrested Friday afternoon by soldiers of the Army’s 64th Infantry Battalion manning a checkpoint at a secluded stretch of the Secretary Narciso Ramos Highway. He was on his way to Parang from Kapatagan, Lanao del Sur.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-11 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 234484
[Title] => Parang dad hunted for bombing
[Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — Soldiers and policemen are hunting down a Parang town councilor after he was identified as the mastermind in Sunday’s bombing of a basketball game that killed 22 people.
Councilor Abdul Katab, alias Henry, has been charged with multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder, along with Suharto Ahmad, owner of an explosive-laden motorcycle used in the bombing.
Parang Mayor Vivencio Bataga said he is certain that the attack was aimed at "neutralizing him."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-09 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 234265
[Title] => Parang blast puzzles police
[Summary] => Investigators are still clueless on who was responsible for the bombing in Parang, Maguindanao on Sunday that left 22 people dead and several others wounded, including Mayor Vicencio Bataga.
Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Senior Superintendent Joel Goltiao admitted yesterday that investigators still cannot identify the suspects.
"We are still trying to work out with the (Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao) to establish the identities of the suspects in the bombing," Goltiao said in Filipino.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-07 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1096615
[AuthorName] => Christina Mendez
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[ArticleID] => 234140
[Title] => Parang bombing death toll hits 22
[Summary] => PARANG, Maguindanao — The death toll from a powerful bomb blast in this town over the weekend has reached 22 and the number of wounded has climbed to 87 from 40, officials said yesterday.
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) health chief Elias Sana confirmed that 22 people have so far died as a result of the explosion.
Sana said the bomb exploded outside a jampacked gymnasium Sunday, at the start of an inter-municipal basketball game. The attack is believed to have been meant to kill re-electionist Parang Mayor Vivencio Bataga.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-06 00:00:00
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