Basilan town administrator shot

ZAMBOANGA CITY – An unidentified gunman shot and seriously wounded the municipal administrator of Tuburan town in the southern Philippine province of Basilan, reports said Friday.

Boat explosion in Zambo kills 1, injures 4

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A wooden boat loaded with 200 barrels of gasoline exploded at a wharf in the southern Philippine port of Zamboanga, killing one person and wounding 4 others, officials said Saturday, adding, another crew member is missing and believed to have perished from the blaze.

Zambo folks panic after reports of explosion

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Security forces locked down a busy road Saturday in the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga after receiving reports of an improvised explosive device left at a garbage dump near where soldiers are manning a checkpoint.

2 killed while attending burial in Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – A lone gunman shot dead 2 people who attended Sunday the burial of their murdered relative in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines.