COTABATO CITY – A grenade attack at a police station on Wednesday has left one officer wounded in the restive region of Mindanao in southern Philippines.
The explosion in Sultan Kudarat’s Esperanza town also damaged the police station’s glass windows, but officials would not say if the attack was connected to terrorism or carried out by rebels.
The wounded policeman was rushed to hospital due to shrapnel wounds, although his injuries were not life-threatening.
No individual or group claimed responsibility for the blast, but the attack left a chilling warning that even police station is no longer safe from the violence that is gripping the region – where various rebel groups and terrorists are actively operating despite a massive military operations aimed at weakening or eradicating them.
In Sulu province, a woman has stabbed and injured two government soldiers outside a military base in Talipao town for a still unknown reason.
The attacker, Salma Hasan, was immediately arrested by other soldiers and handed over to police authorities. It was unknown if the woman was sympathetic to the rebel group Abu Sayyaf or acting on her own.
Police did not release any information or progress of its investigation into the attack which occurred on May 26.
Random attacks on soldiers are not uncommon in the predominantly Muslim province which is part of the autonomous region in Mindanao. Dozens of Christian soldiers had been killed in knife and gun attacks in Sulu – mostly carried out by Abu Sayyaf rebels and civilians sympathetic to them – because of military abuses against Muslims during the Marcos’ martial law years. (Mindanao Examiner)
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