BASILAN PROVINCE – One of two men riding tandem on a motorcycle tossed a fragmentation grenade and exploded at a gasoline station on Monday in Isabela City in Basilan, one of five provinces under the Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said there were no casualties in the attack that targeted the ASL gasoline station in Riverside village. The assailants fled after the explosion.
It was unknown why police or military failed to intercept the still unidentified men despite the spate of attacks largely blamed by authorities to the extremist group Abu Sayyaf.
No individual claimed responsibility for the latest assault, but the province is a known lair of the Abu Sayyaf and other rebel groups. (Ely Dumaboc – Mindanao Examiner)
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