ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / July 2, 2013) – Police recovered an improvised explosive which failed to explode outside a lending firm in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, officials said Tuesday.
Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca, a regional police spokesman, said the bomb was discovered by Dinky Jean Bazar, an employee of the Zamboanga City Easy Credit and Lending Firm and reported it to the authorities.
He said members of the police bomb squad rushed to the area just outside the Ateneo de Zamboanga University and recovered the homemade bomb which was made up of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil or ANFO and mixed with iron nails.
The bomb, placed inside a bottle and attached to improvised non-electric blasting caps and fuse, failed to detonate.
Huesca said the firm’s owner Winifredo San Luis reported to have received an extortion letter last month from an unidentified group. The letter was delivered to his house in the village of Santa Maria.
“There is an investigation going on to determine who was behind the failed bombing,” he said.
It was not immediately known whether the failed attack was connected to extortion activities. (Mindanao Examiner)
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