PNP gives mix theories on Gensan bombing

The Philippine National Police is eyeing the possibility that the explosion in General Santos City Wednesday night that killed four people and injured 27 others was the handiwork of terrorists.
Documents and interviews conducted by Police authorities revealed that the bombing had the signature of a bomb expert with demolitions training given by groups linked to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network and the Indonesia-based Jemaah Islamiyah. Camp Crame sources gave this view.

However, Chief Superintendent Felizardo Serapio, Central Mindanao police chief, said they were considering labor dispute and extortion as possible motives in the bombing, and not a probable terrorist attack. Serapio said a terrorist bombing would have been done in the heart of the city where more casualties could be more likely.

But an investigator who had knowledge of the ongoing investigation of the explosion said they recovered parts of a cellphone, a dry cell battery, nails and other metals, and an iron part from a jetmatic water pump body. Investigators also recovered traces of high explosive TNT.