Tenth Glorietta Bombing Victim Found
I was actually holding out hope for this one.
The body of Maureen De Leon, a woman whose personal effects were found by Red Cross volunteers near the escalator in Glorietta 2, has been recovered, authorities said late Saturday.
The following is an updated list of those who were killed and injured when a bomb went off at around 1:30 p.m. Friday at Glorietta Mall in Makati.
Police investigators identified the 10 casualties as:
1. Jose Allan De Jesus
2. Liza Marquez
3. Lester Peregrina
4. Janine Marcos
5. Anthony Marius Arroyo
6. Maria Celeste Cruz
7. Jee Ann De Gracia
8. Cesar Nino Vidano
9. Rainier Tan
10. Maureen de Leon
One of my readers comments that Maureen was a J2EE developer, along with Jee Ann and Cesar. Our country’s future is burning at the altar of someone’s political agenda.
Grenade Kills Two in Iligan
Looks like it’s bomb weekend in the Philippines. Twenty-nine hours after a C-4 explosive kills nine in the capital, a grenade kills two in the provinces.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales on Saturday said the deadly blast at Glorietta 2 mall appeared to be “a sample” as he warned of more attacks in key cities in the country.
Hours after Gonzales’s warning, an explosion rocked Iligan City early Saturday evening and at least two people were reportedly killed.
The blast that occurred around 6:30 p.m. at a political meeting in Digkilaan, Iligan City, was reportedly caused by a grenade.
”What is more ominous here is they may be planning a bigger attack,” Gonzales said on Vice President Noli de Castro’s weekly radio program Saturday.
”They will first show a sample. That means that while the bomb yesterday (Friday) already was powerful, it is still just a sample,” Gonzales said.
Uncannily accurate, that Gonzales guy.
