COTABATO CITY — One person was slightly hurt when two unidentified men tossed a fragmentation grenade in front of a fast food along Sinsuat Avenue here Thursday night.
Supt. Rex Anongos, city police director, told DXMS RadyoBida that two men riding tandem on a motorbike hurled the grenade at about 8 p.m. that injured the driver of the owner of Sugar Pappi coffee shop.
Anongos identified the victim as Albert Pancho, 47, of Rosary Heights 2, Cotabato City. He was sitting at the driver’s seat of White Fortuner (LFU-494) owned by the establishment owner when the attack occurred.
“Some witnesses saw the two men hurled the grenade but could hardly identify them because it was dark,” Anongos said of the incident that occurred minutes after the power was restored. Some parts of the city have experienced po-wer outages Thursday night.
Responding police recovered the safety lever of MK-2 fragmentation grenade. No one has claimed responsibility.
Anongos said the owner who he did not identity told investigators he has no idea why the establishment was subjected to grenade attack.
But Army Colonel Ra-nulfoSevilla, commander of the Army Special Forces said the possible motive of the grenade attack was extortion.
“I was told the owner received extortion demand but was ignored,” he said. (PNA)
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