Unidentified men bomb 2 NGCP steel towers in North Cotabato
Local News • 22:59 PM Tue Apr 19, 2016
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
NGCP Steel Tower 95 with one of its legs cut (middle) after a series of IED blasts in Carmen, North Cotabato. (Photo by Carmen PNP)
CARMEN, North Cotabato–
Unidentified men tried, but failed to topple, two transmission towers of the
National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in Carmen, North Cotabato,
police said today.
Chief Inspector Julius
Malcontento, Carmen town police chief, said unidentified persons planted six
powerful improvised explosive devices on Towers No. 95 and 96 located in
Barangay Aroman and Barangay Kitulaan, respective, all in the town of Carmen.
Quoting village officials,
Malcontento told the ndbcnews.com.phthat loud explosions which came
almost simultaneously were heard shortly before 1 a.m. of April 19.
Nobody was reported injured
in the series of explosions, he said.
Police and military
investigation showed that the suspects planted three IEDs on Tower 95 and another
three IEDs on Tower 96.
All three IEDs, fashioned
from 60 mm mortars with mobile phone as triggering devices and attached to the
structure’s steel poles went off, cutting all the three legs.
The tower remained standing
and still serviceable,” Malcontento said.
At Tower 95, two of the
three IEDs went off, cutting two legs of the steel tower. It remained
standing, too,” he said, adding that the third IED was safely defused.