Gunmen in the Philippines today fired a rocket-propelled grenade and several bullets into a building that used to house offices of Petron Corp, the country's largest oil refiner. Police said the attack was similar to one in April on the Manila headquarters of Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp, the Philippine unit of oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell, and could be related to recent hikes in fuel prices. No one was injured in either attack and damage was minimal. Police said the gunmen fired at the sixth floor of the Gencon Plaza building in Manila's financial district before dawn and then sped off in two taxis. | "Hey, you can't bring a RPG launcher into my taxi! Put it in the trunk with the other weapons!" |
The grenade punched a hole in one window and other panes were shattered by bullets. Petron is no longer in the building, but US-based cosmetics firm Avon Products Inc has offices there. | Could be a turf battle between Avon and the Mary Kay Eye Liner Liberation Front. |
"Security guards are supposed to be outside the building," police chief Ricardo de Leon said on radio. "However, at the time they tended to be inside the building because of the rain." | Barney Fife Security Service |
After the attack on the Pilipinas Shell building in April, police and army officials said the gunmen could be members of a leftist militant group opposed to several rises in the price of petrol and diesel this year. - Reuters | I'm a little ticked off about gas prices, but I haven't put a RPG through a gas pump, yet. |
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