The Capiz Police Provincial Office (CPPO) in the province of Capiz
CPPO provincial director S/Supt Ulysses Caton said the body
of 37-year-old victim Jorjan Develos, was cut in halves following the powerful
blast past noontime Monday just outside of the Hontiveros Memorial School in
Brgy. Lantangan, 16 kilometes away from Pontevedra town proper.
Initial investigation jointly made by the Pontevedra PNP and
CPPO, believed that the explosion happened after Develos reportedly got
something from his pocket when the metallic object suddenly fell to the ground
and exploded.
Investigators said it was unfortunate that minor pupils were
playing while others were eating their lunch when the fateful incident
happened.
Apart from Develos, a Grade 1 pupil identified as Czarina
Rose Demayo y Palaan , seven years old and a resident of Sitio Rosario, Brgy.
Lantangan, also perished during the incident.
Meanwhile, Pontevedra PNP’s public information officer SPO4
Ernie Bornales said that of the injured victims, four minors had been seriously
injured prompting the management of the town to have them transferred to a
hospital in Roxas City for further medical treatment from shrapnel wounds they
sustained in the different parts of their bodies.
He said eight others who suffered minor injuries are
presently confined at the Bailan
District Hospital
Bornales confirmed it was indeed a fragmentation grenade
which exploded but experts from the Army and Air Force’s Explosive Ordnance
units have yet to determine what type of fragmentation grenade had exploded in
yesterday's bloody blast.
The Pontevedra PNP delved deeper into the case as they could
not presently determine why Develos possessed such powerful explosive as well
as well as the possible motive for his presence in the school vicinity.
Bornales said Develos, who hailed from Brgy. Tuburan in the
adjoining Maayon town, was seen to have alighted from the tricycle past
noontime yesterday and walked his way toward the school when bystanders
suddenly heard the deafening explosion which rocked the locality that later saw
two people dead and scores, mostly minor pupils were injured.
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