Cop killed after picking up booby-trapped SIM at Lanao del Norte bomb site

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CAGAYAN DE ORO – A police bomb disposal expert was killed after he picked up a booby trapped-SIM left behind by suspects who had bombed a transmission

tower of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines in Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, on Friday, September 8.

Navarro said Hangka was a member of the Lanao del Norte PNP Explosive Disposal Unit who responded to reports of an explosion in the remote village of Paiton six kilometers from Kauswagan town proper. Navarro said she was told that the search was about to end at 5 am on Friday when Hangka saw a mobile SIM card lying on the ground in his grid area.Lanao del Norte police chief Sandy Vales said a team of cops and solders went to Barangay Paiton when a resident reported hearing a series of explosions at the 138-kiloVolt electricity transmission line servicing the towns of Baloi and Aurora, Zamboanga del Norte.

 

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