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What a frightening frozen threat.
“A hand grenade — which was encased in ice and without a safety pin — was found in front of a retired judge’s house in Bloomfield Subdivision in Quezon City on Tuesday morning, March 3,” reports Robertzon Ramirez in The Philippine Star.
The report noted that retired Judge Vivencio Baclig — formerly of the Quezon City Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 77 — was the one who cleared the Ampatuans and their followers of rebellion charges in connection with the Nov 23, 2009 massacre for lack of evidence.
In any case, as the report indicated, “witnesses claimed that two white vans stopped and their occupants placed a cloth bag in front of Vivencio Baclig’s house at around 4:30am.”
According to Senior Inspector Noel Sublay of the Quezon City Police District explosives and ordnance disposal unit, “the bag contained the MK2 fragmentation grenade, two bottles of a popular sports drink, and a plastic bottle containing diesel and trinitrotoluene.”
Sublay went on to reveal that “the grenade was discovered at around 7:30am, when the judge’s driver, thinking the bag was full of garbage, placed it near their neighbor’s gate.” In fact, it was the neighbor who reported the incident to the police.
Sublay said the grenade was indeed capable of exploding.
The subdivision has no surveillance cameras and witnesses failed to take note of the white vans’ license plates, so investigators are facing a lot of obstacles in going after the suspects.
Moreover, the subdivision guards’ logbook “showed that only a taxi entered the village from the time the white vans were seen.”
Sublay theorized that “the incident may be connected to disputes within the homeowners’ association, where Baclig serves as the incumbent president’s adviser.”
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