Elements of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade prevented another attempt by suspected renegade Moro rebels to inflict injuries on soldiers and civilians when Army personnel defused a powerful improvised explosive device Tuesday morning in Maguindanao.
Colonel Dickson Hermoso, speaking for the 6th Infantry Division said, soldiers of the 46th Infantry Battalion found the suspicious package left unattended at a waiting shed beside a highway in Barangay Iganagampong, Datu Unsay, Maguindanao at about 6 a.m.
The place is often used by civilian commuters, motorists and even soldiers as resting place or temporary shelter when heavy downpour occurs.
The soldiers on board light military truck were to take a rest after a long travel when one of them noticed a suspicious package. Upon thorough check, they found out it was an IED fashioned from 81 mm mortar with mobile phone as trigger mechanism.
Hermoso said Army bomb disposal team managed to defuse the explosive and prevented what could have been a bloody Tuesday morning where civilians or soldiers as victims.
The area is a known bailiwick of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) which the Army blamed for the series of bombings against civilians, government infrastructure and soldiers in Maguindanao.
Composed of about 1,000 armed followers, the BIFF was formed in 2008 after they broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The BIFF is opposed to the GPH-MILF peace process.
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