Unidentified men bombed another transmission tower of the
National Grid Corporation (NGCP) in Aleosan, North
Cotabato Thursday night but the steel tower was not toppled,
police said.
The two improvised explosive devices that went off at 11:58
p.m. damaged two feet of NGCP Tower No. 63, according to Senior Inspector Jun
J. Napat, Aleosan town police chief.
“The tower remained standing, the blasts only damaged two of
its four feet,” Napat said.
“The incident also did not trigger outage,” he added.
No one has claimed responsibility in the bomb attack in
Purok 4, Barangay Pagangan, Aleosan, North Cotabato ,
the first bomb attack in the province.
At least 16 NGCP towers were bombed in North Cotabato,
Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur in 2015, according to Melfrance Bambi Capulong,
NGCP spokesperson for Southern Philippines.
“Repair will start as soon as area is secured,” Capulong
said of the first bombing incident against NGCP facilities in Mindanao .
Napat said the IED was fashioned from 60 or 80 mm mortars
with mobile phone as trigger mechanism. Another IED was found near the damaged
tower.
"We are conducting pursuit operations, we are following
up a lead," Napat said.
In a statement, NGCP said the bombings only serve to
increase the burden of the public, which must suffer through service
interruptions when towers are bombed.
NGCP is appealing to the public, local and national
government, PNP and AFP to help monitor the safety of the towers so that
transmission services remain uninterrupted.
The company also appeals to local community leaders to help
identify the perpetrators of the bombings, and to negotiate with uncooperative
landowners, to prevent longer power interruptions.
Before Thursday night’s bombing, an improvised bomb also
exploded in Purok Mirasol, Barangay Polomoguen, Midsayap, North
Cotabato , according to Supt. Gilbert Tuzon, Midsayap town police
chief.
Tuzon said the blast occurred at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday
night but nobody was hurt since the area was isolated from civilian
communities.
The blast came while Midsayap is in the thick of
preparations for its patronal fiesta on Sunday.
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