Gov't bomb experts detonate 36,000 dynamite sticks in Sultan Kudarat
Local News • 07:38 AM Fri Sep 9, 2016
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By:
Edwin Fernandez and Ferdinand Cabrera
Workers unload 6 tons of dynamites seized from an abandoned mining site in Sultan Kudarat. (Ferdinandh Carbera)
ISULAN, Sultan
Kudarat -– Government bomb experts safely disposed off Thursday
afternoon about six tons of dynamites seized last month from an abandoned
mining site in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat.
Supt. Raul
Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said Army and police bomb
experts used blasting caps to ignite the explosives down the river in Barnagay
Titulok, Bagumbayan.
The process of
disposal took government troops about six hours from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. when the
explosives, retrieved from an abandoned mining site of China Mining firm in Bai
Saripinang, Bgumbayan, Sultan Kudarat last month, were transported to Barangay
Titulok.
The explosives
were carefully and meticulously loaded into three dump trucks and brought to a Titulok
river.
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chosen the river because it was strategically situated for blasting, it was
below the national highway, far from inhabitants and will not affect the
environment or create landslides after the blast,” Supiter told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida, adding that the
blast did not destroy the environment.
Supiter said
the people of Bagumbayan were officially informed by Mayor Jonalette de Pedrowhile the police chiefs of immediate towns surrounding the area were also
alerted about the planned disposal.
Paranoid by
bomb threats across the region, many residents were alarmed by the lone powerful
blast which reverberated in the towns of Sto Nino, Surallah, Norala in South
Cotabato, Esperanza, Isulan, Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat and Ampatuan,
Abdullah Sangki and Shariff Aguak in Maguindanao.
But Supiter
stressed the local officials and the general public were properly informed.
Lucky enough these
very dangerous explosives did not land in wrong hands,” Supiter said of the
36,000 sticks of dynamites.
In a radio
interview earlier, Supiter alerted the people of adjoining provinces of Maguindanao,
Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato of the planned explosive disposal.
The mining
site for gold was abandoned after President Duterte assumed office in July. sand//scontent.fceb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14203164_10210327754058098_7259094000506516498_n.jpg?oh=ea18be762a2aa18f57490d00b5663102:ampoe=5879A139 (A man shows off one of 36,000 sticks of dynamites military and police bomb experts disposed in Sultan Kudarat - photo by Ferdinandh Carbera) sand//scontent.fceb2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14192799_10210327757258178_948220687759704153_n.jpg?oh=d32914c2de59b2439a9362b541938dc4andampoe=58473818