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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