The Army here has placed its forces and its multipliers into
heightened alert after suspected Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)
attempted, but failed, to topple down a steel tower of the National Grid
Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP).
On Sunday, three improvised bombs were set off by BIFF in
one of the steel tower of the NGCP in Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao province in
what the Army said was a desperate act to get back at government forces and the
general public for the fall of its main camp two weeks ago.
Major Dante Gania, public affairs chief of the Army's 6th
Infantry Division, said the bombers strapped three improvised explosive devices
(IEDs) in three of the four columns of the tower but only one went off.
"Obviously it was a desperate attempt to sabotage the
peace we are experiencing now," Gania told reporters.
Despite the explosion of one of the IEDs, Gania said the
tower remained intact.
It was the second attempt of the BIFF and its sympathizers
to topple steel tower
of NGCP
On February 7, the BIFF planted an IED in a transmission tower of NGCP
Police and militiamen assigned in the area noticed two men
roaming around the tower in the middle of rice field hours before the blast.
Militiamen and intelligence operatives under the supervision
and administrative control of the 38th Infantry Battalion have been deployed
and tasked to secure power lines.
Gania also appealed to the public to help secure steel tower
in their communities because everybody, including those living near the steel
tower would experience the inconvenience of power outages when lawless elements
succeeded in their terror activities.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&sid=&nid=&rid=614744
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