ZAMBOANGA CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Jan. 198, 2014) – Police recovered over two dozen blasting caps following a small explosion on a village in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said police rushed to Lobregat village in Upper Calarian after residents reported the explosion. There was no report of injury or damaged to property and the owner of the blasting caps remains unknown.
But police a group of children discovered the blasting caps and lighted it at a vacant lot that caused the explosion.
Police recovered 34 pieces of commercial-grade blasting caps which is commonly used as detonators for explosives in mining activities.
Meanwhile, in the neighboring town of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay province, police arrested the 25-year old Nestor Medur, Jr., for illegally possessing a fragmentation grenade.
Police said the man, who works for the Mindanao Enterprises, was driving his motorcycle when stopped during a routine inspection at a checkpoint in the village of Magdaup.
The grenade was recovered in the utility box of the motorcycle. It was not immediately known why Medur was carrying a grenade. Police are investigating Medur. (Mindanao Examiner)
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