[Manila Bulletin] Police said they have arrested another bombing suspect who was tagged as among those who tried to detonate an improvised explosive device in Manila on November 28.Police spokesman Oscar Albayalde said the third suspect was nabbed outside Metro Manila over the weekend. He said, "The operation against the two other remaining suspects is on-going."
Albayalde said they thought the third suspect already fled to Mindanao, but they found out later that he was still hiding outside Metro Manila. The first two suspects were separately arrested in Caloocan City and Bulacan.
PNP director Ronald Dela Rosa said the two suspects already returned to Marawi City to reinforce the members of the Maute terrorist group. He said, the two suspects brought the bomb from Lanao del Sur to Manila on an SUV.
A street sweeper found the bomb — fashioned out of an 81-mm mortar, blasting caps and 9-volt batteries — in a trash can along Roxas Boulevard on November 28, with witnesses reporting it was left by two men in a car.