Tag: Roxas night market blast

Intel report: Manila received bomb threat before Davao night market blast

(Eagle News)– Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) revealed an intelligence report that Manila received a bomb threat a day before the Roxas night market blast in Davao City. The document was issued by MIG-24, a military intelligence group, and was given to other police intel and agencies concerned with the report. According to the document, the group monitored a plan of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) to do a bombing in Manila. “Hindi natin […]

Col. Erwin Neri takes charge of Task Force Davao

(Eagle News)– Colonel Erwin Bernard Neri on Thursday (September 8) assumed his new role as chief of Task Force Davao at a turnover ceremony in Davao City. Neri was chosen by Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte based on a shortlist submitted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Duterte sought the removal of former Task Force Davao commander Colonel Henry Robinson after the Roxas night market blast which killed 14 and injured about 70. In a news […]

Davao police: Bomb detonated via cellphone

(Eagle News)– Davao City Police Director Sr. Supt. Michael John Dubria confirmed on Sunday (September 4) that the improvised explosive device (IED) used in the Roxas night market blast was cellphone-activated. Dubria also showed members of media a fuse assembly–a part of 60-mm round– found in the liver of one of the survivors. SPO2 Consorcio Gerones Jr., ordnance specialist of Davao City Police Office-Explosives and Ordnance Division, guaranteed that the use of a 60-mm round […]