Four persons wounded as bomb explodes beside Zamboanga City police station

From InterAksyon (Apr 4): Four persons wounded as bomb explodes beside Zamboanga City police station

Four persons, including a minor, were wounded after a bomb planted underneath a pick-up van parked beside a police precinct exploded Friday night in Zone 3, Barangay Ayala, Zamboanga City.

Police Inspector Dahlan Samuddin, spokesman of the Police Regional Office 9 (PRO9), said Saturday that the blast went off at around 8 p.m. just beside the Ayala Police Station.

The explosion heavily damaged the Nissan Navarra pick-up (with license plate KDY-493), as well as the motorcycles of Police Officer 3 Apolinario Ovalo and PO2 Robert Pancho.

Four persons who found themselves near the place at the wrong time were wounded by the blast.

They were identified as Ofelia Eusebio, 77, who sustained injuries on her right leg; Magdalena Araneta, 61, with injuries in her stomach and bruises in the body; Marvin Esperat, 14, with injuries in the different parts of the body; and Victor Bartolome, 34, with injuries on his back.

Eusebio, Araneta and Esperat were rushed to the Zamboanga City Medical Center, while Victor Bartolome was brought to the Labuan Public Hospital.

Investigators said it appeared that "prior to the incident, unidentified persons installed the explosive device on the back portion of Nissan Navarra in the afternoon of same date."

Blast investigators were still determining the type of the bomb used in the explosion.

The trafficking of illegal drugs was among angles that investigators were looking into as motive.

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