The Police Regional Office (PRO) 7 revealed Wednesday that suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bomb maker Renierlo Dongon admitted that he was sent to Bohol to provide medicine and supplies to ASG members who figured in a clash with military troops in Inabanga and Clarin towns.
Alleged Abu Sayyaf bomb maker Renierlo Dongon (right) and Supt. Maria Cristina Nobleza (left) are led off to a waiting bus by Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel upon arrival in Manila, Saturday, from Bohol. (Credits: PNP Aviation Security Command | Manila Bulletin)
PRO 7 director Chief Supt. Noli Taliño said Dongon claimed that he was in Bohol with Superintendent Maria Cristina Nobleza to provide medicine and other supplies to the remaining ASG members, three of whom died in the clash in Clarin, and dropped the supplies near the area were the terrorists were hiding.
Dongon denied arriving in Bohol to sow terror, but Taliño did not believe the statement of the ASG bomb maker. The PRO 7 director said evidence seized from the hotel room where the two were staying in Panglao showed that they were planning bombing activities in the province.
Nobleza and Dongon were arrested onboard a pickup vehicle when they tried to speed off at a site of a military checkpoint in Clarin town. At least three ASG members are still being pursued by authorities in Bohol.
Meanwhile, Taliño said only 80 of the 400 delegates who signed up to attend the meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bohol actually turned up to attend the event.
But Taliño stressed the low turn out of delegates could not be attributed entirely to the ongoing clash between the ASG members and government troops in Bohol. He said it has been common for ASEAN meetings to get hundreds of registrations but only receive a few actual delegates.
The ASG incident in Bohol did not affect entirely the ASEAN meetings in the province as well as the delegates, according to Taliño. In fact, most of the delegates who arrived in Bohol expressed interest to come back to the province because of its beautiful tourist attractions.
http://news.mb.com.ph/2017/04/26/arrested-asg-bomb-maker-sent-to-deliver-medicine-supplies-in-bohol/
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