From the Philippine News Agency (Jan 1): 3 hurt in grenade attack on police
detachment in Lamitan City
Police in Basilan have launched a province-wide manhunt against two men who
tossed a hand grenade at a police detachment in Lamitan City Monday night that
left three persons wounded.
Lamitan City police director Sr. Insp. Kenneth Balisang,in his report to
Philippine National Police regional office for the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao(PNP-ARMM) here, said the grenade attack occurred while members of the
PNP Regional Public Safety Company was conducting inspection on motorists.
Lamitan is within the jurisdiction of PNP-ARMM.
He said the two policemen and a passerby sustained minor injuries and are out
of danger.
Balisang said he personally received information that heavily armed men
believed to be members of the extremist Abu Sayyaf were to pass by Rizal Avenue
in Lamitan where the PNP checkpoint was located.
Because of the intelligence report, Balisang led an inspection of all
motorists when two men riding in tandem on a motorbike tossed a hand grenade and
sped away. Citing intelligence reports, Balisang said the attackers could be ASG members
who were disrupted with the conduct of police checkpoints.
The Lamitan City PNP and the police regional public safety battalion had been
placed on heightened alert following the grenade attack.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=483708
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