Two men riding tandem on a motorbike launched a daring
grenade-throwing sortie here on Saturday night, targeting police and Army
detachments and a patrolling military vehicle that left one civilian wounded,
the police said.
The first grenade attack occurred at a police detachment in
Barangay Tamontaka 2, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao at past 7 p.m. Nobody was
hurt.
Policemen on motorbikes chased the suspects who made good
their escape.
Shortly before 8 p.m., the same suspects tossed a hand
grenade at a military vehicle of the Army Special Forces Battalion conducting
patrol along Sinsuat Ave.
The blast damaged a restaurant’s glass panes and wounded a
certain Dalmacio Villa who was rushed to the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center
An Army truck driver said he noticed a motorbike with two
men on board overtook his truck. The back rider hurled a grenade toward the
driver side as the Army truck was in motion passing by in front of Aling Precy
Restaurant along Sinsuat Ave.
“We were lucky the grenade bumped off the glass window and
few seconds later a loud explosions occurred,” he told reporters.
“They immediately sped away. We chased the suspects but
traffic along Sinsuat Ave.
He said his companions could not fire at the fleeing
suspects as there were many civilians and vehicles along the highway.
The suspects fled toward Notre Dame Ave.
Senior Insp. Efren Salazar, Police Station 1 chief, said the
IED, fashioned from 60 mm mortar, did not explode. It was safely defused by
police bomb experts.
As of posting, police and Army bomb experts are still
conducting post-blast investigations.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Military intelligence agents believed the perpetrators could
be newly recruit members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) on
test mission.
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