Eastern Mindanao Command spokesman Major Armand Rico said the bomb was recovered by the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at 12:15 p.m. of July 6 in Talayan, Maguindanao.
The said IED was allegedly assembled by one Arman Mano and intended to be detonated at a van terminal in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat.
The bomb is composed of an 81mm mortar with a mobile phone as its triggering device.
