Roadside bomb explodes in Maguindanao town

From the Philippine Star (Apr 13): Roadside bomb explodes in Maguindanao town

Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) detonated Sunday night a roadside bomb while an Army convoy was passing by a secluded stretch of a highway in Datu Saudi town in Maguindanao.

No one was hurt in the attack, but the explosion triggered panic among villagers in peasant enclaves nearby.

Captain Jo-Ann Petinglay, spokesperson of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, said a column of tanks and combat vehicles were passing through a portion of the highway in Lower Salbu in Datu Saudi when the bandits set of the explosive rigged with a blasting mechanism attached to a mobile phone.

“Nobody was hurt in the explosion,” Petinglay said.

Datu Saudi is one of seven Maguindanao towns where the military and the extremist BIFF were locked in a month-long face-off, which caused the dislocation of more than 100,000 innocent villagers.

Combined Army and Marine combatants figured in 27 encounters with radical jihadists during the period.

http://www.philstar.com/nation/2015/04/13/1443400/roadside-bomb-explodes-maguindanao-town