By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff Reporter
LAOAG CITY—Several employees of the Provincial Capitol building were
alerted on the morning of August 5, 2019, following a bomb scare at the east
wing of the Capitol compound.
At about 8:20 a.m., a maintenance staff noticed an unattended bag left near
the Capitol 3-G generation park, which prompted guards on duty to call the
police.
Capitol employees and other visitors however kept going about their work
while a bomb squad with a sniffing dog cleared the area.
“We are thankful it’s negative,” said Michael Pe Benito, of the Provincial
Resiliency Office under the provincial government of Ilocos Norte who saw the
incident.
The police traced the bayong to be owned by travelers bound to
Pangasinan as they left their belongings in the area while waiting for a ride.
It’s the latest false alarm in Laoag as residents were told to remain calm
and refrain from sharing unverified information in social media platforms that
may cause panic.
Also, on the same day, Major Ericson Bulosan of the North Luzon Command
clarified an alert memo being circulated in the internet is for “internal
consumption of Nolcom only” which is subjected for verification by the
intelligence unit.
In the memo, intelligence units of Nolcom were ordered to “heighten
intelligence monitoring” in their area of responsibility amid the reports about
establishments and churches being targeted for a terrorist attack.
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