Police and military authorities here are hunting down two
men believed to have planted an improvised explosive device at a parked car
along a busy street here Tuesday afternoon.
"Manhunt is on going, we are following many
leads," said Supt. Ranie Hachuela, chief of the Tacurong City
The blast which occurred at past 2 p.m. injured three
children who happened to be near a parked Toyota BB car in front of La Forteza Pharmacy
and Caltex Gas Station along Jose
Abad Santos Avenue
Slightly injured were Freddie Tumindig, 42, Nicole Fobar, 19
and a 9-year-old boy.
The IED was fashioned from explosive charges with nails and
fragments of metal used as shrapnel, according to Army bomb experts from Task
Force Talakudong, a joint police and military unit task to secure the city and
its environs.
Capt. Joann Petinglay, speaking for the 6th Infantry
Division, said the Army's 602nd Infantry Brigade investigators are helping the
local police.
Following the incident, police and Army checkpoints were put
up in all entry and exit points of the city serving as crossroads to
Maguindanao, Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato .
The IED was cellphone-detonated similar to an IED found at a
bus terminal in Shariff Aguak on Thursday last week.
No one has claimed responsibility in Tacurong blast, the
second this year.
On January 11, an alert fruit vendor prevented an IED blast
when she reported her discovery to the local police who quickly deactivated the
bomb.
Today's bomb and that of the January 11 incident was
similar, investigators, said and could have been carried out by extortion
groups.
Last Dec. 27, 2015, three persons were hurt when an IED
fashioned from 60 mm mortar exploded at about 10 pm near the city's public
market.
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