MANILA, Philippines — Three persons, including a 9-year old girl, were injured when a grenade exploded after being lobbed at the home of a peace officer in a Quezon City village Thursday night.
Leandro Gabot, 65, a member of the Lupong Tagapamayapa of Barangay Bagong Pag-asa, said he was watching television in his home on Road 1 when he heard something land and roll on the roof.
The explosion came a few seconds later.
Among the injured were Gabot’s grandchild.
The other two were a 34-year old neighbor of the village official and Grab driver Roderick Sadia, who said he had just turned into Road 1 when he had to stop and wait for a motorcycle bearing two men, one of them in a tank-top, to drive away.
“Saka ako pumasok, ‘sakto sumabog na (I entered the street just as the explosion happened),” Sadia said.
Footage taken by a CCTV camera of the barangay showed the motorcycle make two circuits of the area aound Gabot’s house before the explosion.
Chief Superintendent Guillermo Eleazar, Quezon City Police District director, said their bomb squad confirmed that the explosion was from a fragmentation grenade.
He added that Gabot’s work with the village peace and order council was the likely trigger for the grenade attack.
