North Cotabato blast victim could be IED carrier, says PNP

From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 27): North Cotabato blast victim could be IED carrier, says PNP

Police investigators here have theorized that the person wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device here last Saturday could be the bomb carrier.

The victim was later identified as Ali Manisi of Barangay Patadon, Kidapawan City who later died at a hospital in Cotabato City, according to intelligence reports gathered by the Kabacan police.

Citing intelligence information, Supt. Leo Ajero, Kabacan police chief, said Manisi was injured in the blast and was rushed to the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) hospital after the IED went off at 8 p.m. near Laira Marketing along national highway here.

A day after the blast, investigators rushed to the USM hospital but were told Manisi was rushed to Cotabato Regional and Medical Center in Cotabato City where he later died.

His family brought him back to Kidapawan and eventually buried.

Police recovered fragments of 81 mm mortar which was used as bomb component and motorbike believed to have been used by Manisi.

Police are still determining the owner of the motorcycle.

Ajero appealed to the relatives of Manisi to come forward to clear his name if indeed he was not the one who carried the IED.

Saturday's bomb explosion here was the sixth since January.

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