Suspected Moro bandits on Tuesday night bombed one of the
steel towers of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) sending
Maguindanao, part of North Cotabato and Cotabato City
Capt. Joanne Petinglay, speaking for the 6th Infantry
Division, said the toppled tower was in Barangay Gilakit, Pikit and was bombed
at about 9 p.m., cutting power transmission from Bukidnon to Simuay in Sultan
Kudarat, Maguindanao.
Power was restored at about 12 midnight after the NGCP
sourced out power from the Tacurong sub-station.
No one has claimed responsibility but local police and
military authorities saw the "signatures" of the outlawed Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
The IED series attached to three of the four feet of steel
tower simultaneously went off, creating shockwaves among residents nearby.
It was detonated using mobile phone, Lt. Col. Audie Edralin,
chief of the Army's 7th Infantry Battalion said.NGCP personnel are now trying to
repair the toppled transmission tower.
Petinglay said the bombing of NGCP tower was part of the
retaliatory attacks by BIFF after its camp fell to government hands last week.
Following the incident, the Army deployed plainclothes near
transmission towers of NGCP cutting through conflict affected communities in
Maguindanao.
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