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Yellow car with engine problem triggers panic along Cotabato City's busy street

Local News • 00:39 AM Fri Mar 27, 2015
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By: 
Bernadeth Maribojo

COTABATO CITY - A yellow sedan car caused heavy traffic along Sinsuat Avenue here as commuters suspected it was a car bomb.Responding policemen and bomb experts cordoned off the area and rerouted traffic flow to check on the suspicious vehicle at about noon Friday.While bomb experts were checking on the car, its owner showed up and denied it was a car bomb. He told police that the car developed engine trouble so he left it to fetch a mechanic.

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