Philippines: RCIED discovered, destroyed at Maguindanao power cooperative grounds


Ordnance experts on Thursday destroyed a home-made bomb found on the premises of the office of a power utility cooperative.

The improvised explosive device left in the compound of the Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (Magelco) in Barangay Upper Capiton was fashioned from a 60-mm mortar projectile rigged with a blasting mechanism that could be triggered by mobile phone.

Army and police bomb experts destroyed the IED, neatly placed in a box, with an explosive disruptor to rip its components apart.

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Source: Philstar Global