COTABATO CITY — A grenade explosion ripped through a house in Kabacan town in Cotabato at past 1:00 a.m. on Sunday, hurting a couple and their six-year-old child.
Colonel Harold S. Ramos, Cotabato provincial police director, said the family members sustained shrapnel wounds in different parts of their bodies.
Personnel of the Kabacan Municipal Police Station were still validating reports by neighbors that a man had hurled a grenade inside the victims’ house in the village of Kayaga through an open window and ran away.
Lt. Col. Maxim S. Peralta, Kabacan police chief, said village officials were helping police investigate the grenade attack that also caused panic among villagers. — John Felix M. Unson
