5 injured in North Cotabato grenade blast | Inquirer News

5 injured in North Cotabato grenade blast

/ 12:26 PM January 01, 2014

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Five persons were wounded when unidentified men tossed a fragmentation grenade along the national highway in Barangay Ugalingan, Carmen, North Cotabato at around 8 p.m. on New Year’s eve.

The victims were outside the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) when three suspects on board two motorcycles lobbed the explosive.

The victims were about to enter the Church periphery when the explosion occurred.

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The victims sustained wounds in the body caused by the grenade’s shrapnels.

Army’s bomb experts recovered pieces of the fragmentation grenade in the blast site.

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