Blasts rock Cotabato, Maguindanao town
Credit to Author: MASIDING NOOR YAHYA| Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 02:49:05 +0000
COTABATO CITY: A grenade blast hit the town hall of Datu Odin Sinsuat municipality in Maguindanao province at around 1 a.m. on Monday, three hours after two rifle grenades fired from a distance exploded some 20 meters away from the back fence of Cotabato City hall.
No one was hurt in the explosions.
Lt. Colonel Sabri Lakibul, Datu Odin Sinsuat town police chief, said CCTV footgae captured two men on a motorbike tossing what looked like a hand grenade and sped away. “The motive was simply to sow fear,” he said.
In Cotabato City, initial investigation revealed that 40-mm grenades fired from M-79 grenade launchers could have caused the blasts at about 10:15 p.m. on Sunday at the proposed site of the Children’s Park in Purok Omar, Barangay Rosary Heights 10.
City police investigators and members of the bomb ordnance disposal team have yet to determine the cause of the explosion.
Meanwhile, in Lanao del Norte, a police corporal detailed with the Kapatagan Municipal Police Station (MPS) was shot to death after he was shot several times by a riding-in-tandem in Barangay Panoloon, Sapad town past 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Richard Garcia Gordiones, 30, a resident of Poblacion, Sultan Naga Dimaporo, Lanao del Norte, was pronounced dead on arrival at the provincial hospital in Kapatagan.
Col. Rene Solidarios, director of Lanao del Norte Provincial Police Office, said Gordiones was roving in the area as part of his assignment to provide security to voting centers for May 13 elections when he was shot by the suspects who fled to the direction of Kapatagan town.
Solidarios said Gordiones’ death may not be election-related but illegal drug-related since there was a threat for his life by the family of a drug personality killed in anti-drug police operation.
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