Military authorities stationed in Cotabato City
Col. Ranulfo Sevilla, commander of the 5th Army Special
Forces tasked to help the Cotabato City PNP in enforcing law and order, said
Army and police investigators have identified the man behind the series of
grenade attacks.
“We see the hands of Ben Montes alias Black Moro, a member
of a syndicate linked to shadowy group,” Sevilla said.
Sevilla believed that Saturday night’s rifle grenade attack
along a busy national highway here was clearly intended for soldiers conducting
patrol.
A case in point, Sevilla said, happened on Nov. 14. Soldiers
on board a military vehicle were patrolling Sinsuat Avenue
The rifle grenade hit a mango tree and landed in between a
passing Mitsubishi mini-cargo truck driven by Ibrahim Bayao and an Army vehicle
at 7:30 p.m. at the height of a power interruption.
Sevilla said the two soldiers, Corporal Noel Ganab, 28 and
PFC Romer Agustin, 27, both of Special Forces Battalion, were slightly wounded.
Bayao and a civilian were also slightly injured.
Sevilla believed the suspects in rifle grenade attack were
syndicate members who wanted to get back at the military for the series of
arrests it carried out in the city.
Black Moro was arrested in September after his armed group
traded shots with lawmen along SK
Pendatun Avenue Cotabato City
The shootout left three persons killed, including Black
Moro’s wife. He was arrested and charged with illegal possession of firearms
but a local court ordered his release on Friday, Nov. 13.
Three incidents involving grenades have been recorded by the
Cotabato City
A live grenade was found, but safely disarmed, by police
bomb experts found in front of Cafe Florencio, a popular restaurant, along Sinsuat Avenue Cotabato City
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