COTABATO CITY, Aug. 9 -- Authorities arrested four persons and seized suspected shabu with an estimated street value of PHP5.4 million, during separate entrapment operations here and in Marawi City, police reported Saturday.

In this city, a mother-daughter tandem was arrested during an entrapment operation in Barangay Poblacion 5 at about 7 p.m. Friday. Anti-narcotics agents seized PHP3.4 million worth of prohibited drugs.

Spearheading the entrapment operation were agents of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Drug Enforcement Group - Regional Operations Unit in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PDEG-ROU-BARMM).

In a report to Brig. Gen. Jaysen de Guzman, BARMM regional police director, the PDEG-ROU-BARMM said anti-...