Task group focuses on extortion, grudge as motive
in van blast
INVESTIGATORS believed the explosion that rocked a passenger van on Wednesday was connected to the killing of a driver of another van as both vehicles belonged to the same owner
This developed as the Task Force UV Express has also assured
the public that there’s no terror group operating in the city.
Police spokesperson Chief Insp. Milgrace Driz, a
member of the task force, said that Jonas Guerrero, son of van owner Gregorio
Guerrero, had claimed that one of their drivers was killed in Pikit, North Cotabato in connection to the extortion demand they
have been receiving.
“They have around 30 units that ply the Cotabato to Davao
Driz said they already have the identity of the group behind
the extortion.
On personal grudge, Driz said they received information that
some drivers of legal terminals (which counts the SM City parking lot among
them) have reported to the City Mayor’s Office about the proliferation of
illegal terminals in the city.
This past Sunday, during the “Gikan sa Masa, Para sa Masa”
episode, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to spearhead the operation to
dismantle all illegal terminals in the city.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team found fragments of 60mm
mortar at the blast scene along with the cellphone used as a detonating device.
“We have already gathered pieces of evidence recovered from
the area which are now the subject of examination,” she said.
The task force is especially interested on the cellphone,
hoping to recover the information regarding the suspects through the SIM pack.
On Wednesday, a bomb exploded inside a passenger van around
9:45 a.m. along Ecowest Drive
The driver and his aide survived the blast, although the
latter, identified as Alberto C. Besanez Jr., 27, from Poblacion Pikit, North Cotabato , was brought to the hospital after
sustaining shrapnel wounds on his left arm and above his elbow.
Meanwhile, Herman Daag, the driver of the UV express van
with a plate number MVW-553 owned by Gregorio Guerrero, escaped unscathed.
Daag told police investigators that three men alighted right
before the blast in front of SM City Ecoland and the other two hopped off
inside the shopping mall’s van terminal.
They left the terminal to eat breakfast when they heard a
huge explosion while passing in front of Ecoland 4000 residences.
The last time a blast was recorded in Davao City
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