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==GenSan cops step up security operations after recovery of improvised bomb== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=397036 | |||
*January 9, 2012, 7:44 pm | |||
:By. (PNA) | |||
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Jan. 9 (PNA) – Local police and Army units have stepped up their security operations here and the neighboring areas following the recovery of an improvised explosive near the city’s commercial district on Sunday afternoon. | |||
Senior Supt. Cedric Train, city police director, said Monday they intensified their security patrols in key areas of the city to avert possible movements from suspected terror groups that were behind the foiled bomb attack in the area. | |||
He said the explosive, which was made up of a live 81-mm mortar shell and attached to a triggering and timing device, was recovered at a grassy roadside in front of the Chua Bldg. along Narangita Street here at around 2 p.m. Sunday. | |||
The bomb, which was covered by wires, was initially found by a local resident who immediately notified a duty security guard nearby. | |||
It was later detonated by responding elements from the city police’s explosives ordnance disposal or EOD unit through water disruption. | |||
Chief Insp. Leo Sua, Pendatun police station chief, said they found some shredded papers printed with Bangsamoro Youth Movement and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) near the site. | |||
The BIFF is the armed wing of breakaway Moro rebel faction Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, which is led by former Moro Islamic Liberation Front leader Ameril Umbra Kato. | |||
Kato group had been blamed by police and military authorities as behind the recovered explosives in South Cotabato and Sultan Kudarat provinces since last month. | |||
Col. Jose Kakilala, head of the Army-led Joint Task Force GenSan, said they have assigned additional personnel to secure various public areas in the city and intensified the inspections on vehicles and passengers that were entering the city. | |||
The task force earlier established checkpoints on the city’s four main entry and exit routes. | |||
Meantime, City Councilor Dante Vicente urged residents to remain vigilant and be cautious about possible suspicious movements of some individuals. | |||
“We don’t know as to who or what group is behind all these and it will help a lot if all of us will remain vigilant,” said Vicente, who chairs the council’s peace and order committee. | |||
He advised residents to immediately report to the local police should they notice suspicious movements from certain individuals or if they find unattended items like bags or boxes within their areas. | |||
==Task force to probe GenSan journalist's slay== | ==Task force to probe GenSan journalist's slay== | ||
*Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/01/07/12/task-force-probe-gensan-journalists-slay | *Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/01/07/12/task-force-probe-gensan-journalists-slay | ||