Female village chief wounded in grenade attack in Pagadian City
By Jamie Elona
A female village chief was wounded when a grenade went off at her house in Pagadian City past midnight Wednesday, police said.
A female village chief was wounded when a grenade went off at her house in Pagadian City past midnight Wednesday, police said.
A suspected grenade thrower was killed Thursday night while another suspect was arrested during a follow up police operation shortly after a grenade exploded inside the residential compound here of the mayor of a nearby town.
A former village official here was injured when unidentified men hurled a grenade into his house while an improvised explosive device also went off near a police precinct on Wednesday.
The head of the government peace panel with communist rebels on Saturday scored the New People’s Army for indemnifying civilian victims of a recent NPA grenade attack in Davao City instead of surrendering the culprits to the police .
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte welcomed the communist New People’s Army’s move to indemnify 48 victims of the September 1 blast in Barangay Fatima, Paquibato district here, but he also asked the rebel group to tell the public what penalty was meted out to those who carried out the “sordid” act.
The underground National Democratic Front (NDF) said it would compensate victims of the Sept. 1 grenade attack that injured dozens of people in a village here and which the New People’s Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for.
Communist rebels were behind Saturday’s grenade attack that wounded at least 41 people, mostly children, who were watching a circus show in a remote mountain village here, military officials said.
A dispute between two groups, which was initially not named, could have triggered Saturday evening’s grenade attack that killed two people (not three as earlier reported) and wounded 24 others here, the police said yesterday.
Unidentified persons lobbed three grenades tied together inside a subdivision here early Tuesday, damaging a house and a car but causing no injuries, police said.
Four people were killed and eight others were wounded in a grenade attack in a town in this province, police said on Thursday.
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A court in Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for a son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia over a 2004 grenade attack that killed 24 people at an opposition rally. Government attorney Abdullah Abu says the warrant against Tarique Rahman was issued Sunday after police charged him with masterminding the attack in central [...]
