ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / January 1, 2009) – Two people were killed and five more injured after a foot bridge collapsed in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, police said Friday.
Police said the accident occurred as dozens of villagers were watching fireworks during the New Year’s Eve celebration in the coastal village of Taluksangay.
More than 50 people were on the bridge when one of its concrete posts suddenly collapsed, plunging the spectators 10 feet into the sea.
The bridge, built in 1992, connects two communities in the largely Muslim enclave.
Those who died from the fall were immediately buried in accordance to Muslim tradition. (Mindanao Examiner)
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Friday, January 01, 2010
Zamboanga foot bridge collapses
Monday, February 23, 2009
Mercy mission benefits Muslim villagers in Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Feb. 23, 2009) – Hundreds of Muslim villagers have benefited from a medical outreach mission in Zamboanga City in Mindanao.
The humanitarian mission, spearheaded by the Lingkod Timog-U.S. Task Force Sulu, a group of doctors from Rhode Island in the United States, in the Muslim enclave of Taluksangay and in Sangali village.
Most of the patients were Badjao and Samal villagers.
The mercy mission held at the weekend coincided with the 5th National Dental Health Month and was also supported by the Naval Forces Western Mindanao, Western Mindanao Command, Philippine National Police Regional Services 9, Zamboanga City Health Office, Mindanao Central Sanitarium, Zamboanga City Medical Center, Marine Forces South, Task Force Comet, Joint Special Operation Task Force- Philippines, among others.
The villagers were also given toothbrush, toothpaste, bags and slippers. (Michelle Angela Araneta)
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Navy Patrol Attacks Fishermen Off Zamboanga City
ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / June 4, 2008) – One person was killed after a navy patrol boat fired on a group of fishermen off Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, reports said on Wednesday.
Navy soldiers also arrested ten fishermen, all of them Muslims, near the coastal village of Taluksangay. Reports said the fishermen were attacked on Tuesday.
Navy officials did not give any statement about the incident, but village leaders claimed the victims were all fishermen. No other details were available.
In February, navy commandos and army soldiers also killed seven Muslim civilians and an off-duty soldier in a raid on an alleged Abu Sayyaf hideout in the town of Maimbung in Sulu province.
The military insisted the raid was an operation to rescue kidnapped businesswoman Rosalie Lao from her Abu Sayyaf abductors. The raid resulted to the deaths of seven civilians, including two children, two teenagers, and a pregnant woman.
The slain civilians were identified as Marisa Payian, 4; Wedme Lahim, 9; Alnalyn Lahim, 15; Sulayman Hakob, 17; Kirah Lahim, 45; Eldisim Lahim, 43; Narcia Abon, 24. Two soldiers were also killed while four others were wounded when armed villagers allegedly retaliated to the attacking government troops.
In a report, Commission on Human Rights Regional Director Jose Manuel Mamauag denied that there was Abu Sayyaf militant in the village during the raid. He also accused the troops involved in the operation of plundering the houses of the villagers.
Mamauag has recommended the filing of criminal charges against the raiding soldier, who are mostly members of the elite and US-trained Army Light Reaction Company and the Navy’s Special Warfare Group.
For their part, the military has ordered a separate probe on the killings.
Reps. Yusop Jikiri (Sulu) and Mujiv Hataman (Basilan) have separately called for a congressional investigation into the incident. Hataman described the killings as "despicable, loathsome and ruthless. (Mindanao Examiner)
Monday, December 18, 2006
Islamic School In Zamboanga Needs Help
Two children walk past the historic Talusangay Mosque, built in 1885, in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines. (Mindanao Examiner)ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 18 Dec) – While politicians in the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga brag about a robust economy and more development projects than ever, many Muslim enclaves here still remain poor compare to Christian areas where much of government projects are diverted.
“Where is equality?” many Muslim villagers ask.
“Many of our children are uneducated because we don’t have enough schools. There is no opportunity for us to live a descent life. We are discriminated and have no government support,” one Muslim man tells the Mindanao Examiner.
In the Muslim village of Taluksangay, about 30 kms east of Zamboanga, male and female students crowd four small rooms at the Ma’had Da’wa Al Islamie School. “We have no enough rooms. This is taboo. We cannot be together with the boys, but there is nothing we can do,” a female student says.
Their school rooms are dilapidated. They have no library, not even a computer set for each room, not even a wall clock.
Villagers live a naïve life in the Taluksangay, site of one of the oldest mosque in the Philippines, but many Muslims say they are hungry and there is not enough food for everyone in the family. Worse, there is no opportunity for a descent job, they say.
“As you can see, we live a simple life here. We sell corn and vegetables and fish and we pray a lot that help would someday come to us and education for our children,” one Muslim woman, Amina, tells the Mindanao Examiner. “Life is hard, real hard for Muslims in Zamboanga, she says. (Mindanao Examiner)
“Where is equality?” many Muslim villagers ask.
“Many of our children are uneducated because we don’t have enough schools. There is no opportunity for us to live a descent life. We are discriminated and have no government support,” one Muslim man tells the Mindanao Examiner.
In the Muslim village of Taluksangay, about 30 kms east of Zamboanga, male and female students crowd four small rooms at the Ma’had Da’wa Al Islamie School. “We have no enough rooms. This is taboo. We cannot be together with the boys, but there is nothing we can do,” a female student says.
Their school rooms are dilapidated. They have no library, not even a computer set for each room, not even a wall clock.
Villagers live a naïve life in the Taluksangay, site of one of the oldest mosque in the Philippines, but many Muslims say they are hungry and there is not enough food for everyone in the family. Worse, there is no opportunity for a descent job, they say.
“As you can see, we live a simple life here. We sell corn and vegetables and fish and we pray a lot that help would someday come to us and education for our children,” one Muslim woman, Amina, tells the Mindanao Examiner. “Life is hard, real hard for Muslims in Zamboanga, she says. (Mindanao Examiner)
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