ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / August 23, 2008) – A fragmentation grenade exploded late Saturday inside the port of Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines, but police said there were no reports of casualties.
The grenade was hurled inside the compound of the Bureau of Customs, said Senior Superintendent Lurimer Detran, the chief of the local police force. “No one was hurt in the blast,” he said.
Police said an MK2 grenade was used in the attack. No individual or group claimed responsibility for the blast, but it was fourth grenade attack in a span of two weeks in Zamboanga City.
Nine people were wounded in an MK2 grenade attack outside the Marcian Business Hotel in downtown Zamboanga on August 20. A grenade was hurled inside the Cinema 5 at Mindpro Mall here on August 15, but it failed to explode.
An MK2 grenade was also used in the August 12 attack at the central police headquarters here, although no one was hurt or killed in the blast.
In June, four policemen were injured in a grenade attack at their base in the town of Kabasalan in Zamboanga Sibugay province, about 120 kilometers from Zamboanga City.
Zamboanga City has been previously attacked by Abu Sayyaf militants tied to al-Qaeda. It was not immediately known if the group was connected to the latest attack, but a bombing in May blamed to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front killed three people and injured more than a dozen others outside a military base here. (Mindanao Examiner)
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