Doomed Friday: Explosion ripped through the Glorietta 2 Mall in Makati City
This was swiped from the Inquirer and Bluepanjeet with photos.
MANILA, Philippines — The explosion that ripped through the Glorietta 2 Mall in Makati City early Friday afternoon, killing eight people and wounding more than a hundred others was caused by a “hard explosive,” mostly likely TNT or the military ordnance C4, police said.
Chief Inspector Raynold Rosero of the Philippine Bomb Data Center said the explosive went off near an escalator and could have been exacerbated by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks in nearby restaurants.
“We’ve submitted the evidence to the crime lab for chemical analysis and we saw that near the scene of [the] explosion were establishments with LPG,” he said.
Rosero said they have yet to determine whether the explosion was set off by a timer or triggered remotely by cellular phone, the signature attack of the Al-Qaeda linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah and the local Abu Sayyaf.
He described the explosion as “most likely a deliberate attack.”
Philippine National Police Director General Avelino Razon and Alfonso Reyes, spokesman of Ayala Corp., which operates the Glorieta 2 Mall where the explosion occurred at around 1:40 p.m., said eight people had been killed.
Prayers to those who losts their lives and for the many injured.
I WILL CRY OUT TO GOD MOST HIGH, TO GOD WHO PERFORMS ALL THINGS FOR ME. HE SHALL SEND FROM HEAVEN AND SAVE ME. ( PSALM 57:2-3 )
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