Police authorities here are hunting down two men who tossed
a hand grenade in front of the house of Pikit Mayor Muhyryn Sultan Casi Tuesday
afternoon.
Senior Insp. Sindatu Karim, Pikit town police chief, said
police already know the identities of the two suspects who lobbed the grenade
at 3 p.m. along Bai Matambai Salam
Street
He, however, did not reveal the suspects' identities pending
their arrest. Nobody was hurt in the incident.
Responding police agents recovered fragments of MK-67
fragmentation grenade.
Pikit is one of the towns in North
Cotabato the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared as
"election hotspot".
Karim said police investigators consider the incident as a
form of harassment against the mayor's father who is running for the town
mayorship post.
"It was election-related per our initial
investigation," Karim said, adding that more police officers have been
deployed in areas known as crime prone.
It was the fourth grenade attack in town since January,
including those in the house of a political aspirant which came before the
campaign period began.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=875850
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