KIDAPAWAN CITY – Police tightened security in Koronadal City in South Cotabato province following Thursday bombing of a passenger bus that injured two civilians.
The improvised explosive went off at the engine bay of the Yellow Bus Line while travelling in downtown Koronadal.
Two drivers of motorcycle taxis tailing the bus were injured in the explosion, but it was not immediately known whether any of the passengers onboard the Yellow Bus Line were wounded.
The explosion occurred at the engine bay of the bus in downtown Koronadal. The bus originated from Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province.
No
individual or group claimed responsibility for the attack, the second since
last month after a bomb explosion also ripped through another provincial bus in Maguindanao’s Parang town
and wounded several passengers.
The attack occurred in the
village of Making where the bus, operated by Rural Transit Mindanao, made a
stop at a roadside eatery. The bus was on its way to Dipolog City in Zamboanga
del Norte from Cotabato City in Maguindanao when the powerful explosion
occurred at the rear.
In January, a bomb explosion also went off near a fruit stand and
a ticket booth where a Yellow Bus Line was picking up passengers. The
powerful blast killed a civilian and wounded 7 others.
The
blast came a day after pro-ISIS militants detonated a roadside bomb in the town
of South Upi in neighboring Maguindanao and killed one civilian. The military
blamed the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters for the bombing. (Mindanao
Examiner)
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