Cotabato City -- Unidentified men fired rifle grenade in a residential area
here Sunday night, sending residents into panic, police said Monday.
Police said nobody was hurt and no one has claimed
responsibility in the 9:30 p.m. blast.
Quoting witnesses, police said two men riding tandem on a
motorbike passed by followed by a loud explosion.
Bomb experts recovered components of an M-203 rifle grenade.
In Midsayap, North Cotabato
police recovered Sunday an 81 mm mortar and other bomb components abandoned in
a hut.
Supt. Reynante delos Santos
“We recovered the mortar round, yet to be composed into an
IED in a vacant lot, the suspects fled as the police arrived at about 18 p.m.,”
delos Santos
The IED was found in a hut, known among villagers as
"purok" near a road leading to the residential home of Mayor Romeo
Arania.
Police are still investigating the incident.
Capt. Joanne Petinglay, speaking for the 6th Infantry
Division, said the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) has plotted to
set off in various communities to get back after its major camp fell into
government hands.
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