Vice mayor’s aide wounded in Maguindanao Norte grenade attack
COTABATO CITY (MindaNews / 24 January) — The secretary of the vice mayor of Parang, Maguindanao del Norte was wounded in an alleged grenade attack while she was sleeping inside her room before dawn Friday, police said.
The victim, Aira Abedin, single, was immediately rushed to a hospital here for treatment from shrapnel wounds. The grenade exploded around 12:30 a.m. at her residence in Barangay Nituan, Parang.
She is an aide of Parang Vice Mayor Adnan Biruar, who is seeking the municipality’s mayoralty post in the May 2025 elections.
“Investigation revealed that the explosion transpired while the victim was asleep inside her house. The explosive was allegedly thrown by an unidentified perpetrator through the window,” said Lt. Col. Jopy Ventura, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region (PRO-BAR).
He said that investigators have yet to establish the motive of the grenade attack.
Authorities have heightened security measures, including against private armed groups of politicians, early this month in the two Maguindanao provinces after several violent election-related incidents were recorded in the area.
As part of the efforts to ease tensions and establish a climate of peaceful conduct of elections, the Civil Military Operations of the 6th Infantry Division, led by Lt Col. Rodern Orbon, conducted a series of political candidate’s forums.
Lt. Gen. Antonio Nafarrete, chief of Joint Task Force Central and the Western Mindanao Command, earlier gave orders to ensure the conduct of orderly and honest elections in their jurisdiction, including the holding of a candidate’s forum.
Such forum was scheduled for today, January 24, in Datu Anggal Midtimbang, Maguindanao del Sur, where a peace covenant was expected to be signed by local candidates in the May 12, 2025 elections. (Ferdinandh Cabrera / MindaNews)
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