Army bomb experts defused a live fragmentation grenade
tossed by still unidentified men in front of a government hospital here
Wednesday, police said.
"We do not know the motive why a hospital was subjected
to grenade attack," Senior Inspector Esmael Talusan, police chief of
Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
Talusan said the local police received a call from a man,
who did not identify himself, that a hand grenade was thrown by still
unidentified men at about 10 a.m. in front of Sanitarium Hospital
Army bomb experts and local police conducted search at the
vicinity of the hospital after asking health workers to vacate the facility.
Patients were also secured by moving them at the back
portion of the government health facility.
Talusan said bomb experts discovered and safely deactivated
a PRB-423 fragmentation grenade found at the concrete fence and near
residential areas.
The bombing attempt came a day after an improvised explosive
device was set off by lawless elements in Datu Unsay, Maguinanao that injured a
soldier and the discovery of three IEDs at a roadside in Barangay Rebuken which
police and Army safely deactivated.
The hospital is about a kilometer away from where three IEDs
were found Tuesday night.
Talusan has appealed to the public to remain vigilant and
alert police authorities about suspicious bags, explosives and persons acting
suspiciously in town.
More checkpoints have been set up in Sultan Kudarat town
after the national government declared state of emergency in the aftermath of Davao City
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