2 soldiers hurt in another N. Cotabato blast

KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Two soldiers were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted a few feet away from a military detachment in Midsayap, North Cotabato, went off around 7:10 a.m. Friday.

Wounded were identified as Sergeant Remon Sapon of Golf Company and Staff Sergeant Rodolfo Obogan of the Charlie Company, both from the 40th Infantry Battalion deployed in Barangay Nabalawag.

North Cotabato police Provincial Director Danny Peralta said the victims were fetching water from a nearby well when an IED, fashioned from a 60-mm mortar with a mobile phone as a triggering device, exploded.

Captain Antonio Bulao, civil military operations chief of the Army’s 602nd Brigade, said one platoon under a certain 1st Lieutenant Layacan led the pursuit and clearing operations in the area.

Bulao said personnel from the Army’s Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Team (EOD) arrived at the blast site, few hours later, where they found out the IED was fashioned from a mortar round and exploded purposely to incur casualties among government troops and civilians in the area.

In Cotabato City, a powerful grenade went off inside the residential compound of Barangay Rosary Heights-10 chair Anwar Lucas around 4 a.m. Friday.

Lucas' residence is just few kilometers away from the site of the August 5 bombing in Cotabato City that killed eight people and injured several others.

Lucas, in an interview, said he was the target of the bomb attack.

The grenade, lobbed from a distance, landed near the wall of his bedroom where he was staying.

Authorities recovered fragments of the grenade from the blast site.

Although Lucas and his family were not hurt during the explosion, grenade shrapnel damaged two multi-cabs parked near the blast site.

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