Cops foil bombing attempt in Sultan Kudarat festival
Local News • 15:42 PM Thu Nov 23, 2017
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By:
Edwin O. Fernandez
Participants to the annual Kalimudan Festival in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat perform during the showdown of street dancing contest. (Kalimudan FB page)
ISULAN, Sultan
Kudarat – Civilians and police authorities prevented Wednesday
night what could have been a bloody culmination program of a festival here
after a bombing attempt was foiled.
Senior Supt.
Raul Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police provincial director, said police force
multipliers discovered a suspected bomb left at a roadside in Barangay Kalawag
here where people had been gathering for the weeklong Kalimudan Festival
(gathering of people for thanksgiving).
Supiter told DXOM-AM Radyo Bida Koronadalpolice bomb experts were quickly deployed and disarmed a powerful improvised explosive
device made of black powder, cut nails and metal sheets with torch as
triggering device at past 9:30 p.m.
He said it was
placed by still unidentified men in the middle of parked vehicles near the main
entrance of provincial capitol grounds, the venue of culminating program.
Supiter said
the IED could blow up a car and could send its metal shrapnel to as far as 500
meters away had it exploded.
He lauded the
alert civilians tasked by police to serve as eyes and ears against lawless
elements out to disrupt the festival.
Following the
attempt, more soldiers from the 33rd Infantry Battalion had been
deployed since the celebration will continue until December.