For the third time in less then ten months, very large, lattice-steel, double-circuit 138 kV transmission towers – the highest capacity circuits used by Transco in Mindanao – are bombed. All in the same general vicinity. Here are two reports (seem to have the same information source) on the latest, New Year’s 2008, bombing of three towers. Luwaran.com and MindaNews
As usual when it comes to details on armed conflict in Mindanao, you won’t find much of anything in the Manila papers about this – here’s a lone report. The two articles above do a better job of capturing more detail. A lot of journalists have struggled, and many continue to struggle, to bring more to light; a lot of journalists have died in the process.
I provided some details on the March and October bombings here – in all cases the same Agus-Kibawae line has been involved. The October bombing, if you recall, took down the whole Mindanao grid practically. But the most recent is pretty amazing in that three structures were struck on the same night. Here’s a Transco single-line diagram of the relevant area from my previous post.
