ZAMBOANGA CITY – A grenade attack has injured two people in the southern Filipino port city of Zamboanga, police said Sunday.
Police said one of two men on motorcycle tossed the fragmentation group near the house of Eugene Jumawan, the village chieftain of Buenavista late Saturday.
It said the explosion injured Queenie Jumawan Levita, 19, and Addim Alaja Attain, 16.
“Investigation disclosed that prior to the incident, the village chairman together with some of his councilors and neighbors were sitting and having conversation at the waiting shed just outside the his residence when a motorcycle driven by unidentified persons passed by and lobbed the hand grenade and exploded,” said Insp. Dahlan Samuddin, a regional police spokesman.
The motive of the attack is still unknown, but Samuddin said police are investigating this incident. (Mindanao Examiner)
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