AUTHORITIES are now determining who were responsible for the attack on a police checkpoint where two officers were wounded in Barangay Cabuluhan, Cabanglasan town, Bukidnon, on Monday night.
Maj. Eddie Boy Manalo, chief of the Cabanglasan town police, today said investigation has already been conducted to identify the two still unknown perpetrators on a motorcycle that lobbed an explosive at law enforcers.
Manalo said the attackers drove by the checkpoint and threw an explosive at S/Sgt. Junmark Suico and Patrolman Alvin Claunan whose shift has ended and were taking a break.
He said Suico and Claunan were resting in a waiting shed near the checkpoint when the incident happened at around 7:30 in the evening.
Police officers conducting the checkpoint managed to fire back at the attackers who sped off towards Barangay Mandaing in Cabanglasan, he said.
Manalo said they are also determining if the attackers are New People’s Army (NPA) fighters or members of other armed groups operating in the area.
But he said it is likely that Maoist insurgents have carried out the attack as the presence of the military and law enforcement have curtailed their movements in Bukidnon.
Manalo said the National Police’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal is still investigating if the weapon thrown at the police officers was a grenade or some other explosive device.
The police, he added, are assisting the Phil. Army in the conduct of its anti-insurgency operation in the province.
“Both Suico and Claunan are doing fine. Their injuries are not that severe,” Manalo said in a telephone interview. (Jigger J. Jerusalem)
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