CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan — The Bulacan State University (BulSU) and two public high schools became targets of bomb threats through text messages with one of the senders claiming to be a member of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA).
For the third time on Friday morning, the Marcelo H. Del Pilar National High School in Barangay Sta. Isabel here, received a text message that a bomb will explode within the day.
The first threat was made on Tuesday.
The BulSU, on the other hand, said a college student leader received a text message around noontime that a bomb was planted at the campus stock room.
A BulSU ranking official, who requested anonymity, said a college student and officer of the campus student council received a text, with the sender claiming to be a CPP-NPA member. Threats previously received by the university were made on Oct. 2 and 5.
The Guiguinto National Vocational High School in Barangay Poblacion, Guiguinto also received similar text messages on Tuesday and Thursday.
Joyce Marie Dalisay, Teacher 1 of Guiguinto Vocational High School, said on Friday they received a threat through text claiming the bomb would be carried by a Grade 7 student.
The Guiguinto Vocational High School have 10 school buildings and an administrative building with more than 6,000 students and 250 teachers.
Dalisay said class attendance dropped to almost 50% as parents disallowed their children from attending classes.
Senior Supt. Chito Bersaluna, director of the Bulacan Police Provincial Office, said the bomb squad disposal unit from the First Provincial Mobile Force Company conducted paneling operations in the schools premises and all turned out to be pranks.
“Our priority here is the safety of the students, even it turned into a joke or hoax we have to deploy our experts. It’s our mandate,” Bersaluna said.
Malolos City Mayor Christian Natividad said that they are doing all the best with his chief of police, Supt. Heryl Bruno, to determine who are behind the series of bomb hoaxes that disrupted classes. (Manny Balbin/PNA)
