From the Philippine News Agency (Aug 14): PNP foil bombing attempt in North Cotabato's restive town
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KABACAN, North Cotabato -– Alert civilians prevented what could have been another bloody Wednesday in a remote village here when they discovered a live hand grenade abandoned at roadside.
Chief Inspector Jordine Maribojo, Kabacan police chief, said a man found the grenade at roadside in Barangay Kislam, near the town’s Poblacion at 6:20 a.m.
The man quickly alerted the village officials who in turn alerted the police.
Army and police bomb experts quickly responded and properly disposed the MK-2 hand grenade. No one has claimed ownership of the explosive.
Maribojo lauded the civilians for being vigilant in the face of bombing incidents in the region.
The discovery of the grenade came following two separate rifle grenade attacks that hurt four persons on Friday night and Monday dawn.
Kabacan Mayor Herlo Guzman said he could be the target of twin rifle grenade attacks that wounded militiaman Eddie Antolin, his son and parents in law.
The second rifle grenade attack landed at the roof of the Comelec beside the town hall where Guzman slept Monday dawn.
It destroyed portion of the Comelec office, police said.
Police investigators believed politics was behind the twin attacks since the first rifle grenade explosion landed beside the town’s tennis court where local officials were playing tennis at about 7 p.m. last Friday.
The region is reeling from the series of bomb attacks starting August 5 when a powerful car bomb killed eight person and wounded about 40 others.
Authorities blamed an emerging terror group called Khilafa Islamic Movement with links to the regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah for the rash of bombings in Mindanao .
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