Kidapawan mayor urges traders to secure malls to avert attacks
A worker of the KMCC Mall was killed while six others were injured in the blast,
In a meeting with members of
“The security measure we need to adopt must include the setting up of security lights in the vicinity of establishments, setting up of security cameras, and security gadgets to prevent possible intrusion by terrorists and criminal elements,” Gantuangco told businessmen present in the emergency security meeting.
Preceding Thursday’s bombing of the KMCC Mall in Kidapawan City were two separate bombings on Oct. 5 near a commercial district not far away from its public market, leaving a 10-year-old girl dead and causing injuries to 39 others.
Gantuangco said he is certain only one group could have perpetrated the recent bombings in
The
Chief Inspector Leo Ajero, director of the
Witnesses have positively identified the duo as the last to have left a bag, believed to have contained the explosives, at the baggage counter of the mall.
Policemen recovered from the suspects a claim stub of the baggage they deposited at the baggage deposit booth of the establishment.
Ajero said police agents also recovered from the suspects’ hideout various materials used in the fabrication of IEDs, among them dried blasting powders kept in sealed plastic bags.
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