Bag outside Zambo church triggers bomb scare

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police were looking for a man who left a bag outside a Catholic Church in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga, prompting a bomb scare late Sunday.

Members of the local police bomb squad cordoned off the area in Culianan, halting traffic and carefully inspected the suspicious bag only to find carpentry tools.

Alert villagers discovered the abandoned bag and thinking it contained a bomb quickly called the police.

 “It was a bag containing carpentry tools. It is probably owned by a carpenter,” Sergeant Teofilo Viray told reporters.

Security is tight in Zamboanga, especially in places of worship, and public areas following the lifting of martial law in the restive region where security forces are battling communist rebels and pro-ISIS militants. (Zamboanga Post)

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