ZAMBOANGA CITY – Philippine soldiers have foiled Saturday a deadly bomb attack on Catholic cemetery packed with people in the southern province of Sulu, officials said.
Captain Roy Trinidad, a military spokesman, said troops – deployed in Jolo town to help police authorities secure civilians during All Saints’ Day – discovered a bag containing the explosives made from ammonium nitrate and other materials rigged to a cell phone and tucked into a 10-liter container.
Although no individual or group claimed responsibility for the failed attack, suspicion fell heavily on the Abu Sayyaf which is notorious for killing civilians and the spate of bombings in the Muslim autonomous region.
Sulu is one of five provinces under the Muslim region where Abu Sayyaf continues in terror campaign in an effort to establish an Islamic caliphate in the restive South.
Trinidad said troops immediately disrupted the improvised explosive and appealed to citizens to be vigilant. “We have disrupted the IED and security forces tightened its patrol in Sulu to protect the public from harm,” he told the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
Jolo Mayor Hussin Amin did not give any statement on the foiled bombing, but the town had been attacked many times in the past by the Abu Sayyaf. (Mindanao Examiner)
Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindanaoexaminer
Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MindanaoExamine
Read Our News on: http://www.mindanaoexaminer.com / http://mindanaoexaminernewspaper.blogspot.com/
Share The News
https://mindanaoexaminer.com/ad-rates
20
