After almost a year in captivity with terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, President Rodrigo Duterte received Norwegian hostage Kjartan Sekkingstad on Sunday, September 18.
Taking cue from the recent bomb threats that circulated in Davao City, a military official asked the public here not to pass on bomb threat information without assessing whether or not such information is a hoax.
Davao del Norte governor Anthony del Rosario sent his sympathies and condoled with the Davao blast victims which resulted to the death of 14 individuals and injured more than 60 others.
Human rights group Amnesty International and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday, September 3, urged President Rodrigo Duterte to respond to the deadly Davao blast “with peace and not with more violations of human rights.”
Members of the militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) across the country held a nationally-coordinated candle lighting ceremony on Saturday afternoon, September 3 to express solidarity with Davao and to demand justice and show sympathy for the victims of the deadly explosion incident.