Sunday, October 4, 2015

Police remain clueless on Basilan bombing

From the Manila Bulletin (Oct 4): Police remain clueless on Basilan bombing

Isabela City, Basilan Province – Local police continued to face a blank wall as  to who was responsible in the roadside bombing here Thursday afternoon that killed four people and injuring 11 others.

Basilan Province  Police Director Sr. Supt Oscar Nantes said  his office  has formed a Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) to  focus  deeply into the explosion incident and  to unmasked  the  perpetrators to the incident.

Nantes said the SITG will be headed by his office with members from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG); Isabela City police; military personnel and from other government agencies.

He surmised that the explosion targeted Isabela City Vice Mayor Abdulbaki Ajibon.

The fourth fatality was Gregorio Heneral Delgado, a city government employee who was in the vicinity of the blast.

The  roadside bomb exploded while Ajibon’s convoy of vehicles was passing at Barangay Sunrise, Isabela City about 1:10pm that also killed three of the vice mayor’s bodyguards, namely, Muhaimin Jali, Ulah Maulla, and Ramil Omar.

Nantes said the bomb exploded just outside the main gate of the compound of Isabela City Mayor Cherrylyn Santos-Akbar.

Those wounded  were identified as Abdullah Alìh Ismael, former barangay captain of San Rafael, Isabela City; Sattar Swaib Abdul and Tupay Kalbi, Ajibun’s security escorts; Nurhaida Dela Cruz; Hadji Amlon Adam; Sali Appan Utal, 74; Timhar Mohammad; Gammar Tiplani, 57; Sonny Tanjali, 50; Grace Torres; and, Florante Agustin.

http://www.mb.com.ph/police-remain-clueless-on-basilan-bombing/

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