Unidentified men set off explosive device near Pikit military detachment

PIKIT, North Cotabato—Unidentified men set off an improvised explosive device near a military detachment here Wednesday night.

Senior Insp. Sindatu Karim, the town police chief, said the explosion in Sitio Village in Barangay Batulawan about 100 meters away from the detachment of the 7th Infantry Battalion around 8 p.m.

Nobody was hurt in the blast.

Karim said Army bomb experts recovered assorted sizes of concrete nails, broken bottle components and a 9-volt battery from the blast site. There were also traces of ammonium nitrate.

The blast in Pikit came two days after an improvised bomb made of similar materials also went off in front of the Army’s civil military operations office in Cotabato City. Nobody was hurt in the said blast as well.