Authorities are eyeing a female bomber to have blasted the bus in Tacurong City, killing a 56-year-old male passenger and wounding 11 others, including a 5-year-old child, in Purok Duranta, Barangay Poblacion of the city in Sultan Kudarat.
“While we already have a lead to the possible perpetrators, we will continue our investigation to accurately identify and pursue these heartless attackers,” Rojas said. “We will not stop hunting them down. We will continue to intensify our internal security efforts to counter similar incidents that put the lives of innocent civilians in danger,” Rojas said.
Rojas said the information of the four female passengers was provided by the Yellow Bus Line driver and bus conductor. “One of them is seen as the culprit,” he said. He also explained that the use of female bombers was nothing new. It had been the “same modus in the past,” he said, when [groups] used close female relatives like wife and children to board the bus,” citing the Davao YBL bombing in 2021 and the Tulunan bombing in January 2021.Rojas also saw extortion as the primary motive in the bus bombing. “Prior to the explosion, the YBL received extortion call.
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