BULUAN, Maguindanao: Bomb experts safely defused on Friday morning here a powerful improvised explosive device (IED) near the gate of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) compound, a few kilometers away from a civilian celebration of the local Sagayan Festival.

Colonel Ricky Bunayog, 33rd Infantry battalion commander, said the IED was made using an 81mm mortar shell to contain the explosives, with an alarm clock serving as a trigger device.

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