A closed-circuit television (CCTV) has caught two possible
suspects in the bus bombing in Bukidnon on Tuesday, the police said Wednesday.
An improvised explosive device (IED) exploded inside a Cagayan
De Oro City bound passenger bus a few meters away from the main gate of the
state-owned Central Mindanao University (CMU) past 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, killing
10 people and wounding 43 others.
The CCTV caught the two unidentified men who disembarked from
the bus near the main gate of the state university’s high school department,
the police said.
A witness also told the police that the explosion occurred a
few minutes after the two men disembarked from the passenger bus, the police
said.
“The suspect could be just somewhere nearby,” the witness
told the police.
Pol. Inspector Leonard Cordero, of the Maramag Police
Station, said that they have already had a copy of the CCTV and statements of
witnesses.
“Based on the initial investigation, the IED was an 81
millimeter mortar – not 60 millimeter as earlier reported,” Cordero said.
The IED device was wrapped and placed inside a jute sack and
was placed in the luggage compartment at the rear portion of the bus. “A
cellular phone was believed used as the triggering device,” he said.
Cordero said that the Maramag police has already turned over
its initial findings to the Bukidnon provincial command which would later
forward the findings to the regional police command in Cagayan De Oro.
“We could not give so much detail of the initial findings
since we are living it to the higher headquarters,” Cordero said.
He said that the investigators are looking at extortion,
sabotage, and terroristic act as the possible motive of the bus bombing.
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