Monday, October 19, 2015

Farmer, cops foil bombing attempt of NGCP tower in North Cotabato

From the Philippine News Agency (Oct 19): Farmer, cops foil bombing attempt of NGCP tower in North Cotabato

An attempt to topple down a steel tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) was foiled by police authorities here Sunday morning, a police officer said.

Chief Inspector Julius Malcontento, Carmen town police chief, said a set of three improvised explosive devices were found by a rubber farmer at 7 a.m. at the base of NGCP Tower No. 110 in Barangay Tacupan, Carmen, about 250 meters away from the Sayre Highway, the road linking North Cotabato and Bukidnon.

Alarmed by his discovery, the farmer hurriedly alerted the village officials who in turn called on the attention of Carmen PNP.

Malcontento IEDs were composed of a series of three 60 mm mortars with mobile phone as trigger mechanism. It was found in the tower located at the middle of a rubber plantation in Barangay Tacupan.

Police immediately cordoned off the area to prevent rubber farmers from getting near the steel tower which transmits the 69KV power from Kibawe substation to a sub-station in Kabacan, North Cotabato.

No one has claimed responsibility.

Malcontento said Army and police bomb experts safely defused the explosive with no damages to the steel tower.

"I would like to commend the farmer his vigilance, we hope the same vigilance from other farmers and villagers living near the transmission towers in Carmen and nearby areas," Malcontento said.

It was the fifth bombing attempts in North Cotabato and Maguindanao with four incidents resulted in the toppling of power lines this year.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=816618

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