Davao City bombing suspect yields to Cotabato City police
October 16, 2017 | 12:12am
Residents place flowers at the makeshift memorial at the site of the September 2, 2016 bombing in Davao City.. AP Photo/Manman Dejeto, file
COTABATO CITY, Philippines — A suspect in the September 2016 bombing in Davao City yielded to local authorities on Sunday.
The suspect, Mohammad Chenikandiyil, was first detained in November last year and then released.
He was later included in an arrest order that the Department of National Defense issued after President Rodrigo Duterte placed Mindanao under martial law on May 23. The declaration was in response to attacks by the terrorist Maute group in Marawi City in Lanao del Sur.
Security forces are still battling to clear the city of terrorists now isolated in a shrinking main battle area.
Chenikandiyil was accompanied by lawyer Wilmer Donasco when he surrendered to the Cotabato City police office on Sunday afternoon.
The city police office immediately turned him over to the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao for detention.
Chenikandiyil was among four suspects arrested in Cotabato City October 2016 in connection with the September bombing of a night market in Davao City that left 16 dead and more than 60 others injured.
Chief Inspector Aldrin Gonzales, spokesman of Police Regional Office-12, said Chenikandiyil decided to surrender through the intercession of local officials in Cotabato City.
“We got information purporting that he wants to disprove the charges against him. There is a proper forum for that. He surrendered to the city police director, Superintendent Rolly Octavio,” Gonzales told The STAR.
Also arrested in Cotabato City last year along with Chenikandiyil were TJ Tagadaya Macabalang, Wendel Apostol Facturan and Musali Mustapha.
Macabalang, Facturan and Mustapha remained in detention and now face charges over their alleged involvement in the bombing.
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