Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Cotabato car bomb suspects’ photos released

From the Philippine News Agency (Aug 14): Cotabato car bomb suspects’ photos released

Police authorities made public Wednesday the computer-generated facial photos of three suspects who carried out the deadly Aug. 5 car bomb attack here that killed eight victims and wounded 30 others.

Sr. Supt. Rolen Balquin, city police director, though did not name the suspects as not to jeopardize their ongoing manhunt operation.

“Rest assured we know their identities,” said Mayor Japal Guiani Jr., who was with Balquin and Col. Custodio Parcon Jr. of the Philippine Marine Battalion Landing Team 1 during the city peace and order council meeting held Wednesday at the city hall.

Guiani said the unspecified amount of bounty he is offering for the suspects’ capture stays.

“We want to get them (suspects) alive as possible for they would be instrumental in pointing to their masterminds and strengthen our case against them,” he stressed.

The mayor also maintained that he has managed to obtain all the documents containing the exchange of text messages between the bombers and masterminds that led to the bomb attack.

City Administrator Cynthia Guiani-Sayadi, the mayor’s sister and alleged target of the attack, said she would like all those involved be imprisoned soon to give justice to those who died and hurt in the incident.

She said the city government is trying its best to bolster its intelligence capabilities in cooperation with the village leaders to avoid a repetition of the Aug. 5 attack.

Sayadi’s bulletproof vehicle was passing along Sinsuat Avenue, the city’s main thoroughfare, when the car bomb went off with its impact ripping through a busy section of the highway, instantaneously killing five of the victims.

Sayadi was not hurt in the incident.

“We need every help we can from the communities despite our meager intelligence budget of some P207,000 monthly,” Sayadi said as she clarified that the big chunk of the city’s regular budget always go to basic public services.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=555001

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