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Bus terminal security measures beefed-up after Digos, Davao bombing

September 2, 2008

By Lizanilla J. Amarga

Security measures at local bus terminals here are beefed up due to the recent Metro Shuttle Bus bombing at Digos City that killed six persons and injured 28 others, police and the military reported yesterday.

Bomb-sniffing dogs are now, bomb experts, officers with metal detectors and even bus marshals are now being deployed to these terminals.

In Cagayan de Oro City alone, City Police Director Isagani Genabe, Jr. said additional police officers in uniform and in plainclothes are now deployed to the Agora Eastbound Terminal and the Bulua Westbound Terminal.

He said some of these plainclothes officers will be riding the buses with passengers  for some selected routes.

He added that he has also ordered all police stations to conduct checkpoints just to make sure that no explosive devices can get through the city.

Also, Genabe said their ordnance division is standing by as well in a 24-hour basis.

Meanwhile, Fourth Infantry Division public affairs officer Major. Michele Anayron said they have men ready to help out the police just in case.

He said they also continue to gather intelligence information but that he requests local residents to immediately report to the nearest law enforcing agency any suspicious activity or person in their area.

“We need help from the people because we cannot be everywhere at all times,” he said.

Meanwhile, Rural Transit Mindanao, Inc. (RTMI) which serves a number of routes all over the region even extending to Davao City, Zamboanga and Cotabato are also taking precautions and are briefing their own bus drivers and dispatchers for any eventuality.

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