Police authorities have launched a manhunt against gunmen
who fired rifle grenades toward six school buildings in Sultan Mastura town in
Maguindanao, police said.
Nobody was hurt in the blast which came between 4:00
a.m.-5:00 a.m. Wednesday, Senior Inspector Wendylyn Banico, Sultan Mastura town
police chief, said.
The series of explosions sent fears among residents living
near school grounds, he added.
Banico believed the bombings could be related to the up
coming elections although the town of Sultan
Mastura
The suspects, Banico said, appeared to have used 40 mm rifle
grenades, fired from a distance, based on shrapnel that Scene of the Crime
Operatives (SOCO) agents recovered at the blast sites.
Banico identified the bombed schools as Tapayan Central
School , the Dagurungan
Elementary School , the Tuka Elementary School ,
the Darping Elementary
School , the Tareken Primary School and the Simuay Seashore
Elementary School
Some of the schools roofing were damaged and school
amenities were also destroyed.
Investigators also found bullet holes in the concrete school
buildings and believed to be caused by M-16 Armalite rifles.
“We are still investigating as to the real motive, we can
only surmise at this time it could be election related,” Banico told reporters.
Sultan Mastura was not among the towns listed by Comelec,
police and military as “areas of immediate concern” in the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
Earlier named as possible “hot spots” in the coming polls
were the towns of Sultan sa Barongis, General Salipada K. Pendatun, and Datu
Salibo.Across the region, Comelec and security officials named 13 “areas of immediate
concern” including three in Maguindanao.
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