The scene at Tacloban Airport after the bomb joke. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte--A Philippine Airlines (PAL) flight that was supposed to carry dozens of House of Representatives members to Manila on Friday night,...
Police and Coast Guard personnel arrest a woman over a bomb joke at the Passenger Terminal Building of Port of Puerto Galera on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (photo: PPA) She may have planned and waited for this long Holy Week break for her much-deserved vacation —until one bad...
Police arrested a 63-year-old Swiss man for allegedly cracking a bomb joke at the Siargao Domestic Airport on Tuesday, March 5. The suspect, Pet, who was about to leave the island after a vacation, uttered a bomb joke twice while at the airport in Barangay Sayak, Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte. He...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Police are investigating a series of hoax bomb threats in this province this month. Various schools in Pangasinan have received hoax bomb threats via social media accounts used in previous instances of hoax bomb threats. POLICE secure the public plaza in Mangaldan,...
The continuing pursuit operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against members of the Islamic State (IS)-linked Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute Group who allegedly perpetrated a bomb attack at the Mindanao State University (MSU) in Marawi City last year resulted in yet another bloodbath on...
PAETE, Laguna – A bomb threat disrupted classes in three public schools and work in the town hall here on Tuesday morning, February 13. A BOMB threat rocked Paete, Laguna on February 13. (Photo via Danny Estacio) The Department of Education-Paete received a chat message from an unknown sender...
LUCENA CITY, Quezon – A bomb threat disrupted operations of a Social Security System (SSS) branch here on Monday afternoon, February 11. Police said the branch manager, Sherlie Calusin, received an emailed bomb threat from an anonymous sender at around 4 p.m. Security immediately evacuated...
Government information technology experts are now crafting a comprehensive strategy to address another wave of hoax bombs that targeted at least 28 government agencies and even academic institutions on Monday, Feb. 12, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said. In a statement released...
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Tuesday, Feb. 13 confirmed that 28 government agencies have received hoax bomb threats via email, all originating from the same foreign suspect. Photo from CICC CICC Executive Director Alexander Ramos in a press briefing said the...
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) confirmed on Tuesday, Feb. 13, that it is collaborating with the Japanese government to thoroughly investigate the recent bomb threats sent to several Philippine government agencies and local government units (LGUs). Photo from CICC After...
The Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC), an attached agency to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), announced on Monday, Feb. 12, that at least six government agencies have received bomb threats. MB FILE As per the report, the CICC, in...
CAMP CIRILO S. TOLENTINO, Balanga City, Bataan – Police in this province are on alert after a bomb threat rattled this province on Monday, February 12. THE Bataan Provincial Explosive and Canine Unit is on alert following a bomb threat in the province. (Bataan PECU) Police Col. Palmer...
