CAGAYAN
DE ORO CITY: Police have filed multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder
charges against the suspect in the bombing of an RTMI bus the other day, newest
information reaching Philippine Preview said.
The
bus explosion at the Central Mindanao University (CMU) entrance in Maramag, Bukidnon,
Dec.9, killed 10 persons and injured 42.
Bukidnon
Provincial Police Chief Glenn dela Torre said their suspect is Macmod Manibpil,
alias “Mang,” said to be one of the “BIFF new recruits on test mission.”
Dela
Torre said Manibpil was identified by the RTMI driver of bus 2640 who said he saw
the suspect, as well as other survivors who also testified they got a closer
look of the alleged perpetrator.
Dela
Torre added Manibpil boarded in Brgy. Barandias in Pangantucan and disembarked from
the bus a few meters away from the CMU bus stop minutes before the explosion.
He
added that the driver saw the suspect “getting something from a sako bag”
placed in the overhead baggage rack while a bottle of mineral water fell from
the bag when Manibpil opened it.
Police
investigators earlier said that an IED, composed of an 81-millimeter mortar, and
a cellular phone, which acted as the bomb’s trigger device, was used in the
bombing, placed in a sack.
Manibpil,
dela Torre said, presently is a fugitive, as he was one of the 49 prisoners who
escaped when MILF rebels broke them out of a detention facility in Kidapawan
City in 2007.
Manibpil’s
name also came out as the one responsible for the Nov. 6 bombing of another
RTMI bus, which injured four passengers.