From InterAksyon (Aug 20): Cotabato City cops on alert over grenade attacks
Police in Cotabato City have gone on high alert following successive grenade attacks on its units.
A smoke grenade was lobbed at the office of the Traffic Management Unit. Monday afternoon, city police Station 2 was attacked with a fragmentation grenade.
No one was hurt in both incidents.
City police spokesman Senior Inspector Rowell Zafra said the grenade attacks could be part of attempt to spring crime suspects locked up in police holding cells, noting that those at city police station 1, which is beside the TMU office, and 2 are currently crowded.
Acting Mayor Cynthia Guiani attributed the attacks to what she described as efforts to derail the improved peace and order situation in the city, including the local anti-drug campaign.
Meanwhile, a former village councilman of Pikit, Cotabato was killed and two other persons were wounded in an accidental grenade explosion Tuesday morning.
Reports from Pikit said a farmer found an unexploded round from a grenade launcher and took this to the rest house of Mayor Sumulong Sultan where it detonated.
The identities of the victims were not immediately available.
http://interaksyon.com/article/131923/cotabato-city-cops-on-alert-over-grenade-attacks
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