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| Filippino soldiers foil bomb attacks in Mindanao | |
| 2004-08-24 | |
| Government troops foiled a bomb attack Monday in Jolo by suspected urban terrorists belonging to the Abu Sayyaf extremist group, a military commander said. The improvised device was made from a mortar shell and planted on a roadside where soldiers and military vehicles frequently pass in the village of Alat on the island of Jolo in Sulu province, said Brigadier General Gabriel Habacon. The device was wired to an electronic timer and was powerful enough to kill scores of people had it exploded. Members of the Explosive Ordnance Demolition squad of the Army's Task force Comet, which is under Southern Command chief Habacon, rushed to the scene and immediately detonated the powerful 60-mm mortar, said spokesman Major Bartolome Bacarro. "The explosive is made out of the 60-mm mortar, placed in front of Alvin's Pharmacy, near the mosque in Jolo," Bacarro said. Bacarro said the military is still trying to determine which group was responsible for the latest bomb assault in Jolo Monday. "We have not yet identified who were responsible for this attempted bombing in Jolo, although we do not discount the sinister plot of the remaining Abu Sayyaf terrorists in the area," he added.
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |