Grenade found in Port Area, Manila

Authorities found an unpinned grenade on a wooden cart in Port Area, Manila on Sunday morning.

The grenade was found past 9 a.m. on a "kariton" parked in front of the office of The Philippine Star, according to a report by Manny Vargas on Super Radyo dzBB.

Police then cordoned off the area on 13th Street and Railroad Street.

Police Colonel Robert Domingo, chief of the Port Area Station of the Manila Police District (MPD), said the cart owner and a pedicab driver saw the grenade without its pin.

Operatives from the Explosives and Ordnance Division of the MPD and the Philippine Coast Guard proceeded to the area to handle the matter. 

FLASH REPORT: Granada, natagpuan sa loob ng isang kariton sa bahagi ng 25th St. at Railroad St. sa Port Area, Maynila. | via @VargasMannysen pic.twitter.com/UmCGv6kp7f

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) July 18, 2021

They pulled the cart farther away then detonated the hand grenade.

VIDEO: Fragmentation grenade na iniwan sa isang kariton sa bahagi ng Railroad St. at 13th St. sa Port Area, Maynila, ligtas na na-detonate ng MPD-EOD. | via @VargasMannysen pic.twitter.com/vbrPxhVQRA

— DZBB Super Radyo (@dzbb) July 18, 2021

Police said they are checking if the incident is linked to an arrest made an hour before the grenade was discovered. 

A man was earlier arrested near the area after his live-in partner reported she was physically hurt and her cellphone was stolen. He was found to have the said cellphone and a grenade with him. —KG, GMA News