Grenade explodes outside home of Bohol judge

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Unidentified persons lobbed a grenade at the open garage of a judge in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, on Thursday night, according to the police.

No one was hurt but the explosion left a small crater on the pavement near the right rear tire of a Kia Carnival SUV that was parked inside the open garage of the house of Judge Fernando Fuentes III  at CPG East, Barangay Poblacion I in Tagbilaran.

The explosion also ripped through the right wheel and created a hole in the gas tank, said Inspector Antonio Samante, chief of the Tagbilaran police traffic section.

The fragments of the grenade also damaged the roof of the garage and glass window of the ancestral home of Fuentes, presiding judge of Regional Trial Court Branch 49.

Samante said witnesses saw two men on a  motorcycle driving by and then lobbing a fragmentation grenade toward the parked SUV about 9 p.m. on Thursday.

He said no one was inside the house at that time because Judge Fuentes was in Manila to bring some documents to the Supreme Court. Fuentes’  wife and children were in Ozamis City, running their business, Samante said.

He said the caretaker of the house lives some three kilometers from the judge’s  house.

Samante said the police wanted to talk to the judge to find out if he had received any threats but Fuentes had not returned to Tagbilaran yet.