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www.mindanaodailybalita.com VOL. 2, No. 127
Cagayan de Oro City
Friday
October 12, 2012
2 died, 3 hurt in Oro hotel blast
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By GERRY L. GORIT of Mindanao Daily News
CAGAYAN de Oro City––Two persons were killed, including a male bystander, and three were injured when an improvised explosive device exploded 1:45 a.m. Thursday outside the Maxandrea Hotel in Cagayan de Oro.
A second bomb was safely detonated by the police later at 8 a.m. Police said they have two possible suspects from closed circuit television footage but they have yet to study the faces for positive identification. The blast also damaged cars parked in the area, a busy intersection during the day. HOTEL | page 7
Mayor Ibrahim M. Macadato shows his Certificate of Candidacy he filed before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) municipal officer Gandawali Rasuman (left) on October 1, 2012. Mayor Macadato is seeking for reelection as mayor of Butig town in Lanao del Sur. Photo by Analisa Española
Hotel owner survives grenade attack in Zambo By AL JACINTO of Mindanao Daily News ZAMBOANGA City––Authorities on Wednesday arrested two men who exploded a grenade under a truck driven by a hotel owner in the city, officials said. Officials said a boy, who was near the explosion, was hit by shrapnel and injured as policemen gave chase on the men who tried to escape on a motorcycle after the
Police officers cordon off the Maxandrea Hotel in Cagayan de Oro after the 1:45 a.m. Thursday bombing. At right, two bomb squad members detonate the bag containing the second bag in the sidestreet near the hotel. Photos by Gerry L. Gorit
daring attack at intersection just outside a military base. Two other accomplices from the village of Mampang, believed to be hired killers, were also arrested following a subsequent police operation. The assailants lobbed two grenades, but only one had exploded under the truck and damaging two of its huge tires, GRENADE | page 7
Most areas in Mindanao suffer from power shortage By JUDY G. QUIROS of Philippine News Agency DAVAO City––Except for the cities of Davao and Cagayan de Oro, most areas in Mindanao have been experiencing a two-hour power curtailment beginning October 6 until November 10, according to Milfrance “Bambi” Capulong, National Grid Corporation in the Philippines (NGCP) spokesperson for Mindanao. Capulong said the power shortage is triggered by the preventive maintenance shutdown of the 210 MW coal-fired power plant in Misamis Oriental that started October 6 and projected to last until November 10 as earlier announced by the coal plant’s
operator, STEAG State Power, Inc. “Except for Davao City and Cagayan de Oro City, all the rest are experiencing brownouts of about two hours as STEAG started the shutdown of its coal-fired power plant,” she said. Mindanao’s power demand is at 1,100 MW. However, with STEAG’s preventive maintenance shutdown, the power generating capacity in the entire island was reduced to 974MW which caused the ongoing power shortage, Capulong said. Earlier, National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) has announced the coming of its two barges at 100MW capacity in General Santos City and Cagayan de Oro purposely to augment power supply in Mindanao.
Though the mooring site in General Santos is already prepared for the barge, NGCP has yet to get information regarding the mooring site in CDO, she said. Capulong however said, the power capacity of the two power barges cannot suffice the lost power because of the shutdown of the STEAG’s Misamis Oriental coal fired power plant. The newly created Mindanao Power Monitoring Committee (MPMC) has earlier urged the public to brace for possible outages in some Mindanao areas with the first-ever shutdown of the 210MW coal-fired power plant in Misamis Oriental. STEAG’s 210MW coal-fired power POWER | page 7
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