2 bombs discovered along Cotabato highway

From the Philippine News Agency (Nov 20): 2 bombs discovered along Cotabato highway

Two improvised landmines placed inside two big cans were recovered along the boundary of barangays Marbel and Mateo, here, around 7 a.m. Tuesday, reports said. City police director, Supt. Renante Cabico said a member of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) identified as Leonardo Podadera discovered the explosives placed just few feet away from the national highway. Cabico said that the CAFGU member was doing his usual work in a farm lot owned by a certain Romeo Jalipa when he saw a wire, about 70 meters long. Podadera told authorities he followed the trail and finally saw two big cans just few feet away from the national road. Immediately, he informed an Army detachment of the Bravo Company of the 57th Infantry Battalion at nearby Barangay Gubatan in Magpet town about his discovery. The soldiers coordinated with Cabico and the Explosives and Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team based in Poblacion, this city. Around 830 a.m., the EOD team defused the improvised landmines. Cabico said the recovery came few hours after military trucks carrying the 57th IB soldiers and Special Action Forces (SAF) of the Philippine National Police passed by for special operations against New Peoples’ Army in Magpet town. He, however, has yet to know if the explosives were meant to inflict harm on the soldiers and police operatives.

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