Police rule out terrorist attack in Iligan City

From the Philippine News Agency (Dec 9): Police rule out terrorist attack in Iligan City

The local police on Friday has ruled out suspicions of a terrorist attack following a grenade explosion at the city plaza in Iligan City on Wednesday night.

In a report monitored from here, P/Supt. Leony Roy Ga, Iligan police chief, said that the explosion at the city plaza was not a handiwork of the terrorist “Maute Group.”

He said that the traces of the explosive did not bear the mark of the Maute group because the explosion was triggered by a fragmentation grenade.

Ga said that the Maute group use improvised explosive devices (IED) fashioned from mortar projectiles with an electronic triggering device that could be activated with the use of a mobile phone.

He said that police probers recovered the lever of the fragmentation grenade at the site of the explosion here, which slightly injured three bystanders.

Ga said that the police were looking into drugs and personal grudge as possible motives of the grenade attack.

“There were also suspicion that the suspect could just be trying to intimidate the police because the grenade was lobbed a few meters away from the city police station,” he said.

Ga said that the city government of Iligan has raised PhP 100,000 reward to anyone who could lead to the identity of the suspect as investigators started to examine the footage of the Closed Circuity Television (CCTV) cameras around the city plaza.

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