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Saturday, November 10, 2007
2 minors sued over Cavite blast
MANILA -- Police on Friday filed criminal charges against two people in connection with last Thursday's blast in a subdivision in Cavite province that has left five people dead and five others injured, a police official said.
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Cavite Police Provincial Director Fidel Posadas said initial charges of illegal possession of explosives were filed before the Cavite Provincial Prosecutor's Office against two persons but withheld their names since they are minors.
"They are related with the owner of the house, and they actually came from the house where the blast happened," said Posadas, adding that the two were leaving the blast site with explosive materials when apprehended.
Posadas said more charges might be filed against the two for the deaths and injuries caused by the explosion. He described the two as related to the tenant of the house where the blast originated.
The tenant was among those killed in the blast, police said.
The explosion happened at 4:15 p.m. Thursday inside the house at Block 2, Lot 25, Yakal Street in Sorrento Town Homes in Phase 5, Barangay Habay 1, in Bacoor town. The house also damaged two adjacent houses, police said.
"There was an explosion of items used in illegal fishing," Posadas said, adding that responding policemen recovered from the blast site a number of blasting caps.
Chief Inspector Reynold Rosero, deputy chief of the Philippine Bomb Data Center, supported the findings. He said among the items found during an inspection of the site unconsumed blasting caps, safety fuse, booster, and detonating cords.
But Rosero dismissed terrorism as the motive of the explosion. "These items (that were recovered by the police) may be used in quarrying, dynamite fishing," he said. (VR/Sunnex)For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Zamboanga. (November 10, 2007 issue)
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