Police intercept bomb-making component in Zambo Norte

From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 26): Police intercept bomb-making component in Zambo Norte

The police have intercepted a shipment of bomb-making chemical powder aboard a passenger bus in the province of Zamboanga del Norte, a police official announced Wednesday.

Police Regional Office-9 (RPO-9) information officer Chief Insp. Ariel Huesca said the bomb-making component was intercepted around 7:30 a.m. Monday at the bus terminal in Sindangan town, Zamboanga del Norte.

Huesca said the bomb-making chemical was intercepted after an informant sent a text message to the police station in Sindangan about a “suspicious flour” shipment by a female passenger aboard a bus from coming from Dipolog City en route to Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay.

Huesca said the shipment turned out to be a nine-kilo ammonium nitrate packed in two plastic bags. It is being used in fabricating improvised bomb.

He said the owner of the cargo managed to elude arrest.

He said investigation showed that the unidentified female passenger boarded the bus in Barangay Galas, Dipolog City.

However, he said the passenger disembarked when the bus reached Barangay Dohinob in the town of Roxas.

She paid P20 fare for the cargo to be brought to the bus terminal in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay, where it will be picked up by “someone.”

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