(UPDATE 3) Pre-dawn explosions rattle QC, Pasig
abs-cbnNEWS.com | 10/30/2009 2:15 AM
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MANILA - Two explosions, one in Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City and another in Meralco Avenue in Pasig, were reported dawn Friday.
The first explosion occurred at One Burgundy Plaza, a residential condomium along Katipunan Avenue and across Ateneo de Manila University, at around 2 a.m.
Radio dzMM reported that the explosion came from a bag left behind a parked red Honda Civic with plate number WFY 927, owned by Allan Valencia, 22.
Aimer Gaduran, a security guard working at the said building, said he saw the bag behind the car. When he checked it, smoke suddenly came out of the bag. He immediately ran away. Moments later the bag exploded.
Valencia's car was damaged in the incident, and the explosion was strong enough to knock out glass windows from the 3rd floor of the building, dzMM reported. Other vehicles in the area, however, were undamaged.
The explosion was strong enough to be heard at least 2 blocks away from the building, the report said.
Operatives from the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Bomb Squad are investigating the incident, the report added.
Last June, the same condominium had a bomb scare. A "suspicious package" was found by the security guard near an electric post adjacent to One Burgundy Plaza. There was no explosion.
President Arroyo and her family had once occupied a penthouse suite at the condominium.
Pillbox in Pasig
Around the same time of the incident in Quezon City on Friday dawn, a second explosion occurred at Unionbank Plaza along Meralco Avenue in Ortigas Center, radio dzMM reported.
Initial findings by operatives from the Eastern Police District (EPD) said that the explosion at the Unionbank Plaza was caused by a pillbox, causing minor damage to the building's plant boxes.
DzMM reported that a vagrant saw several unidentified men loitering in the area prior to the explosion.
No one was reported hurt in either incident. With reports from dzMM
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