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Aug 17, 2012

Authorities claim Muslim rebel behind Zamboanga twin bombing

      
      
                   By:MARIZ REVALES and GRETCHIN MONDOY

Police authority claimed that Muslim rebel is behind the twin bombing in the port city of Zamboanga in the Southern Mindanao that resulted to wounding of six persons that include a boy inside a bus 100 meters away from the terminal at around 9:30 pm last night and another bomb exploded at around 10:45 pm at the vicinity of Masjid at Campo Muslim at Superville, this City.
Regional director Police Chief Supt. Napoleon Estilles disclosed to GMANews online that there assessment point to a battling Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement, a Muslim rebel group who staged a series of attacks in the military detachments in Maguindanao last week.
Estilles said that in this situation, only the BIFM rebel group has the intentions to retaliate due to the military offensive in nearby Basilan province and in Maguindanao.
“We are still gathering evidences that could point to the rebel group though no group had claimed responsible”,Estilles said.
City director, Police SSupt James Mejia said that passengers inside the bus that just arrived from Pagadian City were not accounted when the  bomb exploded. “ It was among the cargoes and baggage probably planted in the bus compartment”, Mejia said.
Meanwhile, no one was hurt when the blast occurred near the Masjid in barangay Campo Muslim at around 10:45 pm while the Muslims are doing their Ramadan prayer.
In is part,  First (Tabak) Division commander, Major General Ricardo Reiner Cruz III also said that they are looking on the angle of extortion. “We were informed that the bus company had terminated one of its employees from the service” Cruz said.







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