KABACAN,
North Cotabato -– Alert civilians prevented what could have been
another bloody Wednesday in a remote village here when they discovered a live
hand grenade abandoned at roadside.
Chief
Inspector Jordine Maribojo, Kabacan police chief, said a man found the grenade
at roadside in Barangay Kislam, near the town’s Poblacion at 6:20 a.m.
The
man quickly alerted the village officials who in turn alerted the police.
Army
and police bomb experts quickly responded and properly disposed the MK-2 hand
grenade. No one has claimed ownership of the explosive.
Maribojo
lauded the civilians for being vigilant in the face of bombing incidents in the
region.
The
discovery of the grenade came following two separate rifle grenade attacks that
hurt four persons on Friday night and Monday dawn.
Kabacan
Mayor Herlo Guzman said he could be the target of twin rifle grenade attacks
that wounded militiaman Eddie Antolin, his son and parents in law.
The
second rifle grenade attack landed at the roof of the Comelec beside the town
hall where Guzman slept Monday dawn.
It
destroyed portion of the Comelec office, police said.
Police
investigators believed politics was behind the twin attacks since the first
rifle grenade explosion landed beside the town’s tennis court where local
officials were playing tennis at about 7 p.m. last Friday.
The
region is reeling from the series of bomb attacks starting August 5 when a
powerful car bomb killed eight person and wounded about 40 others.
Authorities
blamed an emerging terror group called Khilafa Islamic Movement with links to
the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah for the rash of bombings in Mindanao .
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