200K BOUNTY MONEY MLANG BLAST OFFER TO INFORMANT

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MLANG MUNICIPALITY, NORTH COTABATO (January 4, 2015) The local officials of Mlang Municipality and North Cotabato Province offered 200K reward money to any informant who can give vital information on the December 31 recent bombing  at the entrance of Mlang Public Market blast.

Mayor Joselito Pinol of Mlang Municipality and Governor Emmylou Talino-Mendoza each shares 100K for the bounty money whoever can give lead and shares information on the identity of the bomb suspects.

Two days ago local officials, PNP and AFP in the area, they blamed Brigant Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and the notorious gang group Al-Khobar are behind of the November 23 bombing that killed two bystanders and wounded 22 others,  when an IED was set off at a billiard hall near the town center. Five weeks after, the recent December 31 Mlang public market blast that killed two residents and 35 others wounded.

But the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement BIFM) through their Spokesman Abu Misry Mama released press statement to the local media, they denied the accusation of the local authorities that their group of twin bombing on November 23 and December 31 are not part and involved in blast. Wala raw sila kinalaman sa pagsabog.

One victim named of the local resident Christine Salo 28 died on the spot hit from the shrapnel of IED bomb while she is on the blast site.

Zenaida Suelo 41 year old suffered internal hemorrhage wounds all over part of her body from the impact of the Wednesday public market bomb blast. She died at the Cotabato Provincial Hospital ICU, in the provincial capital of Kidapawan City.

Mlang Mayor Joselito Piñol thanked barangay officials, religious leaders and Muslim and Christian elders for their help in bringing the wounded in Wednesday’s explosion to various hospitals.

Piñol said he would convene the municipality’s peace and order council soon.

Bomb experts found out the home made IED are made of packed with nails and fragments of mixed cast iron with sharp edge and compound materials.

Chief Superintendent Wendy Rosario, Southern Mindanao Regional Police Office director, said the region has been placed on heightened alert following the series of bombings in Central and Northern Mindanao, including the Mlang incident. (By: Abs Damahan)