Two blasts rocked Lamitan City in Basilan in succession Friday night, the Office of Civil Defense of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OCD-ARMM) here said yesterday.
An OCD-ARMM statement said the first explosion of a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) occurred at 7:53 p.m. Another blast followed four minutes later, it said.
The first IED went off in front of Alliance Church along Flores Street while the second went off in the vicinity of the barangay hall of Barangay Mabini.
The OCD-ARMM reported no casualty in both blasts, as ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, himself a native of Basilan, ordered the local police and other concerned agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into the twin bombings.
Basilan is one of known areas of operations in the Sulu archipelago by the outlawed Abdu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
Under public condemnation for beheading a Canadian captive, the ASG is also widely blamed for seizing Malaysian fishermen lately that forced Kuala Lumpur to impose the closure of Sabah border to traders and farers from the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
http://www.mb.com.ph/twin-blasts-rock-lamitan-city/
An OCD-ARMM statement said the first explosion of a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) occurred at 7:53 p.m. Another blast followed four minutes later, it said.
The first IED went off in front of Alliance Church along Flores Street while the second went off in the vicinity of the barangay hall of Barangay Mabini.
The OCD-ARMM reported no casualty in both blasts, as ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman, himself a native of Basilan, ordered the local police and other concerned agencies to conduct a thorough investigation into the twin bombings.
Basilan is one of known areas of operations in the Sulu archipelago by the outlawed Abdu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
Under public condemnation for beheading a Canadian captive, the ASG is also widely blamed for seizing Malaysian fishermen lately that forced Kuala Lumpur to impose the closure of Sabah border to traders and farers from the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
http://www.mb.com.ph/twin-blasts-rock-lamitan-city/
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