The series of bombings in Shariff Aguak, Maguidanao was a
sabotage on intensified police security efforts by lawless elements, a police
official said Friday.
The police and Army are eyeing the Bangsamoro Islamic
Freedom Fighters (BIFF), an outlawed group, for the series of violence in
Maguindanao.
”Shariff Aguak has been quiet the past few days because of
intensified police visibility but the lawless elements are trying to discredit
the efforts,” Senior Inspector Jonathan de Gracia, Shariff Aguak police chief,
said.
De Gracia said three bombing incidents occurred this week in
the town. “Good enough nobody was hurt in the grenade throwing incidents,” he
said.
First, unidentified men hurled two hand grenades inside the
residential compound of former Maguindanao board member Yasser Ampatuan in
Barangay Poblacion. The grenades did not explode and were properly retrieved by
bomb experts.
It was followed by a grenade throwing incident against Army
bomb experts defusing a suspected improvised bomb in Barnagay Labo-Labo. Nobody
was hurt but the blast damaged a police car.
The third grenade throwing incident happened Thursday night
in a residential home in Baragay Poblacion. The grenade did not explode.
Following the incidents, De Gracia appealed to the residents
to help the police in preventing bombing incidents by reporting suspicious
persons with explosives.
He said public cooperation is vital in maintaining law and
order in a particular community.
De Gracia admitted the “culture of silence” among the locals
prevent the police from solving bombing incidents but he was hopeful the public
will fully cooperate.
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