‘BIFF behind grenade throwing at Cafgu post’
COTABATO CITY: Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) bandits are the prime suspects in a grenade-throwing at a detachment of the Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) in Pikit, North Cotabato, on Friday night.
Senior Insp. Mautin Pangandigan, Pikit town police chief, on Sunday said an unidentified man on board a motorbike passed by the Cafgu detachment in Barangay Inug-og, Pikit, at 6:45 p.m. on Friday and threw the grenade.
“The two paramilitary troops stationed in the conflict village of Pikit were lucky to have survived the attack because the grenade did not explode,” Pangandigan added.
He said the man tossed something hard inside the detachment manned by Cafgus who were on duty at the time.
“They thought that stones were thrown at them but they discovered a live grenade right inside the detachment,” Pangandigan said.
Army bomb experts from the explosive ordnance division defused the grenade.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack, the militiamen suspect that the BIFF had a hand in it.
The BIFF has been known to have regularly harassed the Cafgu detachment in the last few months.
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