Lumber trader hurt in Maguindanao grenade attack

BULUAN, Maguindanao-- A lumber trader was injured when two men riding on a motorcycle tossed two fragmentation grenades at his mini sawmill herebefore dawn Wednesday, police said.Reports reaching the office here of Gov. Mujiv Hataman of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, chairman of the regional peace and order council, said victim Monzalim Salendab, of Lower Siling in Buluan, sustained shrapnel wounds in the body and is now undergoing medication.In a report to Hataman, the ARMM police said one of the two bombers riding a motorcycle together that pulled over near the entrance to Salendab’s lumberyard casually alighted and tossed two grenades at the establishment.Only one of the two explosives went off, according to investigators.The suspects had sped away before a loud explosion ripped through Salendab’s property.Insp. Alonto Arobinto, chief of the Buluan municipal police, said investigators are looking into business rivalry, or an old grudge, as the possible angles for the grenade attack.Arobinto said local officials are now helping the municipal police determine the identities of the culprits.