COTABATO CITY — A man stabbed his 11-year-old son to death and wounded her adolescent daughter in a rampage in their home, located in the seaside Barangay Magsaysay in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte, at around Sunday midnight.
Neighbors in Barangay Magsaysay of the culprit, Adjis Sanday Ayob, a 35-year-old Moro Iranun who is now clamped down in a detention facility of the Parang M unicipal Police Station, told reporters on Tuesday that besides being hooked to shabu, he also misbehaves whenever under the influence of liquor.
Lt. Col. Christopher Cabugwang, municipal police chief of Parang, said on Tuesday morning that Ayob had confessed to having killed with a knife his son, Asrap, in a stabbing frenzy that left his 14-year-old daughter, Bai, badly wounded, while he was drunk.
The mother of his two children works abroad as a domestic helper, a ccording to relatives.
Cabugwang said Ayob voluntarily turned himself in to policemen and barangay officials who responded to the gruesome incident promptly reported by neighbors awakened by the commotion inside their house at almost midnight on Sunday.
COTABATO CITY — Two clans in Basilan on Monday signed a peace covenant brokered by the military and provincial officials, ending their deep-seated “rido” that have exacted fatalities on both sides and displaced hundreds of villagers.
Rido means clan war in many southern Mindanao vernaculars.
Basilan Gov. Hadjiman Salliman and Brig. Gen. Prexy Tanggawohn, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, separately told reporters on Tuesday that they are thankful to Brig. Gen. Alvin Luzon, commander of the Army’s 101st Infantry Brigade for having brokered a peace covenant, with the help of local executives and the Basilan Provincial Police Office, between the Latip and Mustapa clans in Akbar town.
The symbolic reconciliation rite was held at the 101st Infantry Brigade’s headquarters in Barangay Tabiawan in Isabela City, witnessed by local officials from Akbar and representatives of the Basilan provincial government.
The rido between the two clans was triggered by territorial disputes and political differences, according to local officials.
The last to die in their hostilities was John Latip, shot dead by members of the Mustapa clan in a gun attack on May 2, 2024 in one of the barangays in Akbar.
The Latips retaliated last May 4, leaving six from the Mustapa clan wounded in an ambush in Barangay Bato-Bato in Akbar.
“Good enough, the leaders of both clans agreed to reconcile through our intercession,” Luzon said on Tuesd ay.
Salliman, who is chairman of the multi-sector Basilan Provincial Peace and Order Council, said as goodwill gesture, the two clans also surrendered to Luzon 11 assault rifles, one fitted with a 40 millimeter grenade launcher, before their leaders signed a peace agreement at an Army brigade command post in Barangay Tabiawan in Isabela City.