KIDAPAWAN CITY – Two powerful improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were recovered along the highway in M’lang town in North Cotabato, around 7:30 p.m. yesterday, police officials said.
Inspector Rolando Dillera, deputy chief of police of M’lang, said that both IEDs were fashioned from a 60-mm mortar with a blasting cap, detonating cord and a clock as the triggering device.
Dillera said it was a balut vendor that informed them of the suspicious package left in front of a restaurant along M.H. Del Pilar Street in Poblacion, M’lang.
The vendor told authorities that an unidentified male person left the package just few feet away from a concrete road pavement along the highway minutes before the recovery, who then boarded a vehicle and sped towards an unknown direction.
“There were at least two people that were seen roaming around the place minutes before the vendor found the package,” said Dillera.
An hour later, elements of the Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Team of the Army arrived at the place and defused the IEDs.
Dillera said the bombs recovered in M’lang town looked like the explosives recovered and defused last January in Kidapawan City.
“We have yet to find out as to who might be behind the planting of these bombs,” said Dillera.
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Malu Cadelina Manar | Manila Bulletin | March 7, 2013 | Article Link
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