Military says no threat for annual Black Nazarene procession

From the Philippine News Agency (Jan 8): Military says no threat for annual Black Nazarene procession

The Armed Forces of the Philippines said on Wednesday it has not monitored any threat against the annual Black Nazarene procession in Manila on Thursday.

"As of our last briefing (Wednesday), no threats were monitored," AFP Joint Task Force-National Capital Region commander Col. Manuel Santiago said.

He added that they expect the procession to end without any untoward incidents.

Santiago also stressed that the agency in charge of security for the annual event is the Philippine National Police and that the AFP is merely providing an augmentation force.

In this regard, the military has provided explosive ordnance, K-9s, medical and crowd control disturbance management teams to support the PNP contingent.

Santiago said that all these teams are now on stand-by.

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