Another Pikit Church blast victim dies

COTABATO CITY - The fatalities in the deadly October 8 bombing in a Church in
Pikit, North Cotabato rose to three as another victim died Tuesday.

Virginia
Manolid, 63-year-old teacher, expired due to cardiac arrest while confined at a
hospital in Kidapawan City.

Manolid and
four others sustained serious shrapnel wounds when a rifle grenade landed inside
the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) during a mid-week prayer
meeting.

Manolid
sustained serious injuries in the head and body when the grenade landed near
her.

Jaypee,
Manolid’s son, told DXND Radyo Bidahis mom expired at about 11 a.m. Tuesday.

Manolid and
about 30 others were inside the UCCP Church for a prayer rite when two men
riding tandem on motorbike fired M-79 grenade inside the Church.

Government
nurse Felomina Ferolin, 54 and Gina Gabilona, 39, teacher, both perished hours
after the blast.

Businessman Jeremias
Dandan and son Jerome, 28, who were also wounded are still recuperating at a
hospital in Kidapawan.

Muslim and
Christina leaders have condemned the attack while a US-based classmate of
Ferolin will hold medical mission to Pikit in honor of the fallen government
nurse.

The Pikit
local government offered to pay all the burial and medical expenses of the
victims.