Troops foil bomb attempt in Basilan

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Security forces have disarmed an improvised explosive device (IED) left at a gas station in Isabela City, the capital of Basilan province, officials said on Wednesday.

Insp. Dahlan Samuddin, a regional police spokesman, said two masked men on a motorcycle left a plastic bag containing the explosive at the ASL gasoline station. He said the explosive, whose ingredient was mostly ammonium nitrate, and wired to a blasting cap and cell phone as triggering device, was inside a cooking pot when recovered by members of the local bomb squad late Monday.