THE powerful explosion that rocked Cagayan de Oro City on Sunday that left eight people dead and scores of others injured was the handiwork of a Muslim extremist group, according to sources in the military intelligence community.

The source said that the bomb used was fashioned from a .81 mm mortar, which is normally used by extremist groups but not by the communist New People’s Army (NPA).

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