Police and military authorities in North
Cotabato have taken steps to secure steel towers of the National
Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) after authorities discovered
Saturday an attempt to topple down these structures.
Chief Inspector Julius Malcontento, police chief of Carmen, North Cotabato , said Army bomb experts have confirmed
that an improvised explosive device was used in an attempt to bring down NGCP
Steel Tower No. 103 in Barangay Kitulaan.
"Based on findings, the attempt took place more than a
month ago based on the corrosion in the structure," Malcontento quoted an
Army report.
He said authorities are still determining who could be
possibly behind the attempt.
NGCP Tower 103 carries the 169 KV line from Kibawe substation
in Bukidnon to Tacurong sub-station in Tacurong
City , passing by the town of Carmen in North Cotabato .
"We have taken steps to prevent similar attempt,"
Malcontento told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) Sunday.
Carment town hosts about 35 NGCP steel towers, some of
which, have been bombed in recent years.
Malcontento said residents told the police of what they
noticed was a cut in the beams and parallel bars of the steel structure.
Malcontento said village officials have been helping the
police monitor the vicinity of the structures as part of community efforts to
prevent power outages.
"Everybody suffers when a tower is toppled down, so the
community has been helping us," he added.
In April, two NGCP towers were separately bombed in the same
village but the towers were not toppled. Three improvised bombs were set off by
still unidentified men at the foot of Tower 95 and 96 in Barangay Kitulaan.
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