3 hurt in Pikit grenade attack

PIKIT,
North Cotabato – Police authorities here have launched massive
manhunt against two men who lobbed a hand grenade Tuesday morning at house in a
remote village here that left three persons injured, a police official today
said.
Police
Chief Insp. Sindatu Karim, Pikit municipal police chief, said the grenade
attack occurred at 7:20 a.m. in the house of Dawadi family in Barangay Inug-og,
Pikit.Karim
identified the injured as 50-year-old Toks Dawadi, a volunteer watchman of
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) tower in Pikit, his
daughter Bailanie Usop, a teacher and his one-year-old grandchild.
Police
investigation showed that two men wearing crash helmets arrived in the house of
Dawadi on board a motorbike.
As
soon as the suspects saw Dawadi, one of them tossed a fragmentation grenade and
fled on the same motorbike, Karim said.
Neighbors
rushed the victims to a hospital in Poblacion Pikit. They had minor shrapnel
injuries.
”We
are following up a lead on the identities and location of attackers,” Karim
said in a phone interview.
He
said it was not clear if the attack on Dawadi has something to do with his work
as watchman of NGCP towers in Pikit.
He
said police investigator are also looking more on a personal grudge angle as
the possible motive of the attack.