A SUSPECTED homemade bomb exploded in a shopping mall in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province, wounding at least four people and setting off a security alarm in Mindanao, police said yesterday. Chief Supt. German Doria, the Western Mindanao regional police chief, said the explosion happened in a counter where shoppers deposit their bags and packages around 4 p.m. at the Kim San Plaza. | The military said soldiers found a motorcycle whose gas tank was filled with an explosive liquid at the checkpoint on Allah Bridge around 9 a.m. of Dec. 23. Garcia said the gas tank was filled with picric acid, similar to the trinitrotoluene (or TNT), and was connected to an alarm clock and blasting cap. |
Doria said he ordered security to be tightened in all malls and public areas in Tacurong City and the entire province of Sultan Kudarat, which was placed under heightened alert on Dec. 25 after the military found a motorcycle bomb near a checkpoint in Esperanza town. The military said soldiers found a motorcycle whose gas tank was filled with an explosive liquid at the checkpoint on Allah Bridge around 9 a.m. of Dec. 23. Garcia said the gas tank was filled with picric acid, similar to the trinitrotoluene (or TNT), and was connected to an alarm clock and blasting cap. The motorcycle was registered with the Land Transportation Office in 2000 but the authorities are still tracing the owner.