PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / May 13, 2013) – Four people were wounded in a grenade attack Monday at a polling place in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, officials said.
Officials said the blast at the Cabingan Elementary School wounded Lopito Salic, Sinumbai Bangon, Jaber and Abdullah Pagayocan. “Troops immediately secured the people and the PCOS machines. The wounded were rushed to hospital,” Brig. Gen. Daniel Lucero, commander of the 1st Infantry Division, told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
PCOS refers to the Precinct Count Optical Scan, the machine used by the Commission on Elections in the local and national polls.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lucero said the blast was likely to scare the voters and those manning the polling precinct.
“We still do not know who was behind the attack, but authorities are investigating this case,” he said. (Mindanao Examiner)
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