CAMP BONNY SERRANO, Masbate City -– An explosion awakened the residents of Sitio Bliss, Barangay Burgos, San Jacinto, an island municipality northwest of Masbate City, at about 2 a.m., May 2.
No casualties were reported in the village, which is about two hours from the pier of the municipality via a motorcycle ride, locally known as "habal-habal." The island is about one and one-half hours' boat ride from
Senior Supt. Heriberto O. Olitoquit, Masbate Provincial Police Office director, said that according to a report from Senior Inspector Wilfredo Espineli, San Jacinto Municipal Police Office (SJMPO) chief, who led the team that responded to the place of incident, they recovered shattered aluminum metal, 23 pieces of 1 to 2 inches 8-mm steel bar and electric wire more or less 1,000 meters long and brown in color.
The explosion created a crater more or less one foot and two inches deep and two feet and four-and-a-half inches wide, Olitoquit quoted the report as saying.
At about 8:30 a.m. of the same date, Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel of the Regional Special Operations Task Group-Masbate led by SPO3 Zacarias Barcela, Jr. and PO2 Antonio Tabo III, Provincial Investigation and Detection Management Branch investigator, were dispatched to conduct post-blast investigation.
The pieces of evidence found in the explosion incident area are now under the custody of the SJMPO for proper disposition.
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