An 88-mm mortar bomb was found reportedly by a security guard in a delivery truck loaded with scrap iron at the Tinguan Trading Corp., in the Bacolod reclamation area at about 9 p.m. yesterday.

Security guard Jorge Johnnery of the Regent Security Agency told the police that he found the bomb in the truck that came from La Libertad, Negros Oriental, police reports said.

Bacolod police Terrano patrols 101 and 110 manned by PO2 Gilberto Pineda, PO1s Jerome Javier and Domingo Villar, respectively, went to the area and recovered the bomb containing trinitrotoluene or TNT, police reports said.

The bomb was endorsed to Chief Insp. Armando Tubongbanua, chief of the Bacolod City Mobile Group for proper disposition.

Meanwhile, Tubongbanua yesterday asked the public to be vigilant to avoid being victimized by "rab-rab girls", or those women who slash the bags of their would-be victims with use of razor blades, among others, and take their valuables.

The San Carlos police recently arrested Rosalie Ledesma Dequina and Gina Sellado Rondes who were identified as members of the "rab-rab girls", who were also identified as those operating in several areas of Bacolod City in the last two months, Tubongbanua said.

He said the "rab-rab girls" had been monitored to be responsible for the series of thefts in downtown Bacolod for several years now.

Tubongbanua said he is encouraging those who have been victimized by Rondes and Dequina to file criminal complaint against the two suspects, who are now detained in the lock-up cell of San Carlos PNP, for theft.*DMG

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