improvised explosive device found at the gate of the school in North Cotabato

Miami
September 19, 2008
Story: improvised explosive device found at the gate of the school in North Cotabato

Patrolling police in a town in North Cotabato saw an unattended sack which they found out to have improvised explosive device (IED) inside of it at the gate of a public school.

The IED was found at the front gate of Northwest Elementary School in Barangay Poblacion, Carmen, North Cotabato at around 11:00 pm of September 18.

Sr. Insp. Mariluna Ortega, Chief of Police of Carmen Police Station said that she is thankful that the IED was found immediately and did not explode in daytime because there were classes during that time and it will have severe damage on the schools and students might hurt.

Ortega said that they still do not have suspects on who put the IED on the place because no one saw it also they do not have the motive yet.

“Though I know that because of the current situation here in Cotabato, I know that we are not spare from bomb scare,” Ortega added.

Ortega said patrolling policemen saw the suspicious looking sack outside the school, “since it is unattended, they opened the sack and found out the IED,” said Ortega.

The IED was composed of ammonium nitrate with fuel oil as explosive device, 9 voltage battery as power source, wires, clothes pin as switch and bulb as initiator, it was placed in a container also with screws as its fragments.

The Explosives Ordnance Division already detonated the IED after they discovered it.