A police convoy narrowly missed an improvised explosive
device (IED) that exploded along the national road of Barangay Mintac,
Cataingan, Masbate on Thursday afternoon, a
belated police report said Saturday.
The convoy led by Police Supt. Brian B. Castillo, deputy
director for operations of the Masbate Police Provincial Office, was going back
to Masbate City
The police troop had just attended a turnover ceremony of a
school building project donated by the Masbate Gold Project to Barangay
Buenasuerte in Pio V. Corpus town.
The school building was built by the 565th Engineer
Construction Battalion of the 51st Engineer Brigade of the Philippine Army.
The police provided security during the occasion.
No one was hurt during explosion but the left and front
windshields of the police's Hilux patrol car were damaged.
Police and military elements immediately scoured the area to
hunt down the perpetrators of the IED explosion.
The leadership of the Masbate Special Operations Task
Force-Masbate condemned the attack using IED and immediately conducted an
investigation into the incident.
It, however, could not say yet who were behind the afternoon
IED explosion or whether it was related to the coming May 9 elections.
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