From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 24): Army helps police secure NorCot towns after twin blasts
The Army's 602nd Brigade and the Army Special Forces Battalion are now helping police authorities in Mlang and Kabacan,North Cotabato following twin bomb attacks Saturday and Sunday.
Colonel Dickson Hermoso, speaking for the 6th Infantry Division, said soldiers are now helping the police in Kabacan and Mlang by deploying plain clothesmen and intelligence operatives.
An improvised explosive device fashioned from 81 mm mortar with mobile phone as trigger mechanism was planted at set off in front of Laira Marketing along national highway, Kabacan, on Saturday night.
Supt. Leo Ajero, Kabacan police chief, said the IED was set off shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday. One passerby was slightly wounded.
Intelligence operatives said the bomb attack could be the handiwork of extortion gangs preying on businessmen and bus firms in Kabacan.
On Sunday night, unidentified men riding tandem on a motorbike tossed a hand grenade in the residential house of Federico Padernal Porras, municipal agriculturist of Mlang.
Police said the grenade was lobbed at the back portion of Porras' house. Nobody was hurt in the incident which happened at past midnight.
The twin incident was not related, police said.
Members of the Region 12 Police Regional Public Safety Company have been deployed in Kabacan's commercial center to help thwart any attempt to disrupt the peace and order situation of the town which serves as the gateway to Bukidnon and Maguindanao fromNorth Cotabato .
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The Army's 602nd Brigade and the Army Special Forces Battalion are now helping police authorities in Mlang and Kabacan,
Colonel Dickson Hermoso, speaking for the 6th Infantry Division, said soldiers are now helping the police in Kabacan and Mlang by deploying plain clothesmen and intelligence operatives.
An improvised explosive device fashioned from 81 mm mortar with mobile phone as trigger mechanism was planted at set off in front of Laira Marketing along national highway, Kabacan, on Saturday night.
Supt. Leo Ajero, Kabacan police chief, said the IED was set off shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday. One passerby was slightly wounded.
Intelligence operatives said the bomb attack could be the handiwork of extortion gangs preying on businessmen and bus firms in Kabacan.
On Sunday night, unidentified men riding tandem on a motorbike tossed a hand grenade in the residential house of Federico Padernal Porras, municipal agriculturist of Mlang.
Police said the grenade was lobbed at the back portion of Porras' house. Nobody was hurt in the incident which happened at past midnight.
The twin incident was not related, police said.
Members of the Region 12 Police Regional Public Safety Company have been deployed in Kabacan's commercial center to help thwart any attempt to disrupt the peace and order situation of the town which serves as the gateway to Bukidnon and Maguindanao from
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