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Transmitter bombed

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March 8, 2003 | 12:00am
MASBATE CITY — A homemade bomb exploded inside the compound of Globe Telecom here Thursday night, destroying the telecommunications equipment of its sister-company Islacom Phils., police said.

Chief Superintendent Rodolfo Tor, Bicol police director, said the blast, which occurred at about 9:30 p.m., destroyed the transmitter and receiver housed in a van at the Globe Telecom compound in Sitio San Roque in Barangay Nursery here. – Celso Amo

BARANGAY NURSERY

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CELSO AMO

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT RODOLFO TOR

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