Police found an improvised explosives placed inside a Manila-bound passenger bus in Dasmariñas City in Cavite province on Thursday.
The bomb was tracked after Jasper Jean bus company received information from a passenger who found a backpack left under the seat in its terminal in Cavite fetching passengers for Manila. The passenger brought the bag to the attention of the driver, who opened it and found a bomb with a cellphone inside.
Edwin Costes, president of Jasper Jean bus company, said they received a report around 10:30 a.m.
The driver asked the passengers to disembark and immediately took the bag with its contents to a nearby police station.
“There are reports that the phone even rang but we are still confirming it,” the Inquirer quoted Cortes as saying.
As of 3 p.m., the bus unit was still in the custody of the police undergoing inspection.
