{"id":18543,"date":"2026-01-31T02:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18543"},"modified":"2026-01-31T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:36:15","slug":"cotabato-ambush-leaves-4-young-people-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/cotabato-ambush-leaves-4-young-people-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"COTABATO AMBUSH LEAVES 4 YOUNG PEOPLE DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOUR people aged 19, 18, 16, and 11 on Thursday night were killed in an ambush in Matalam, Cotaato.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Police identified the fatalities as Rashid Mampo, 19; Rica Jane Maidlos, 18; Daryl Diansya, 16, and Russel Kim Diansya, 11.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A fifth victim aged 14 is in serious condition at the hospital.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation showed\u00a0 the victims were on a motorcycle when a group of armed men waylaid them in Bgy. New Abra.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victims were reportedly heading home after stopping by a nearby house to connect to WiFi when gunmen suddenly attacked them along a dark and isolated stretch of road\u00a0 in Bgy. New Abra around 6 p.m. on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The gunmen fled <\/strong><strong>toward Sitio Malupayag <\/strong><strong>after the killing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Probers are trying to determine the motive for the attack, \u00a0including \u00a0personal grudge or a land dispute.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relatives told media that the family had only been living in Bgy. New Abra for a little over a month after moving from Davao City.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An investigation is ongoing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOUR people aged 19, 18, 16, and 11 on Thursday night were killed in an ambush in Matalam, Cotaato. Police identified the fatalities as Rashid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18545,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18543\/revisions\/18545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}