Unidentified men hurled a fragmentation grenade at the
office of PNP Highway Patrol Group in Sultan Kudarat in what police believe was
a retaliatory attack against HPG's intensified drive on illegal vehicles.
Superintendent Jhunny Buenacosa, Tacurong City PNP director,
said in a radio interview that the grenade attack occurred at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Manhunt has been launched against the attackers whose
identities have been provided to the police by witnesses.
Nobody was hurt in the blast but it caused damages to the
building located along the national highway in Barangay EJC Montilla, Tacurong City
Quoting witnesses, two men riding tandem on a motorbike
slowed down in front of HPG building then one of the two men hurled the grenade
and sped away.
Responding police and Army bomb experts recovered fragments
from MK-2 fragmentation grenade.
Buenacosa said the intensified campaign of Highway Patrol
Group against colorum vehicles operating in the city could have motivated the
attackers who owned one of the vehicles impounded by the highway patrol unit.
Implementing highway traffic rules, members of the PNP HPG
have been checking at random vehicles plying the Isulan-Tacurong City
Attention is given on motorbikes which are often used by
lawless elements in committing crimes because it can be maneuvered for quick
escape after the crime was carried out.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack but police
investigators have been following a lead that could identify the perpetrators
and their immediate arrest.
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