Abandoned car in Quiapo causes alarm, but yields no explosives
An abandoned car caused alarm among bomb-shocked residents in Quiapo, Manila on Saturday, but fears vanished after police bomb experts found no explosives inside.
DzBB's James Agustin reported that a black Toyota Vios (VG 7323) was found in front of a residential building along Bilibid Viejo Street.
Manila Police District-Explosive Ordnance Division operatives immediately searched the car and found only clothes and some drug paraphernalia, including a tooter and an empty sachet of suspected shabu.
@dzbb MPD-EOD: Nagnegatibo sa anumang pampasabog ang abandonadong kotse sa Bilibid Viejo St. Quiapo Maynila. @dzbb pic.twitter.com/PQzBTjuJIg
— James Agustin (@_jamesJA) May 27, 2017
Abandonadong sasakyan na 36 oras nang nakaparada sa Bilibid Viejo St. Quiapo Maynila, ipinoproseso ng EOD. @dzbb pic.twitter.com/YSCYl7mWmd
— James Agustin (@_jamesJA) May 27, 2017
@dzbb Sasakyan na naiwan sa Bilibid Viejo St. Quiapo Maynila, nabuksan na. Muling inikutan ng K9. @dzbb pic.twitter.com/ou6Uayrp4D
— James Agustin (@_jamesJA) May 27, 2017
Authorities have withheld information on the two IDs recovered from the car as investigation is ongoing.
PCI Alden Panganiban, head of the MPD-Barbosa Station, lauded residents for their vigilance, especially after Quiapo was rocked by a series of explosions last month, and amid the threat of the ongoing security crisis in Mindanao. —Anna Felicia Bajo/LBG, GMA News