IED discovered in Midsayap, Cotabato

An improvised explosive device (IED) was discovered in a jeepney in Midsayap, Cotabato.

Super Radyo dzBB's Benjie Liwanag reported on Dobol B sa News TV that the 90th Infantry Battalion recovered the IED at 7 a.m. inside a jeepney at a checkpoint in Barangay Polomogin.

FLASH: Bag na naglalaman ng IED, nadiskubre sa isang pampasaherong jeep sa Midsayap, Cotabato ngayong umaga. | via @Benjielite

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Captain Arvin Encinas, spokesperson of the Army's 6th Infantry Division, said the IED was inside a bag left in the jeep with the license plate MWA 995.

The IED was meant to explode in a compound in Cotabato City and a supermarket in the same city.

Members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) are seen as one of the probable suspects in the attempted bombing.  — Rie Takumi/RSJ, GMA News