Roxas names suspect in CDO bombing

Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II on Wednesday identified one of the suspects in the July 26 Cagayan de Oro City bombing that killed eight people and wounded more than 40 others.

Roxas, during a Senate hearing, named a certain Usman Hapids as one of the perpetrators of the bomb attack at the Kyla's Bistro in Cagayan de Oro City.

The DILG chief said that authorities are also trying to establish the identities of the other perpetrators in the bombing that killed eight people.

Criminal charges, Roxas said, were being readied by the police against the perpetrators of the deadly bombing.

The identification of Hapids was based on the computerized facial composite which was produced following accounts of the witnesses who described the man who supposedly seen leaving a bag at the bistro minutes before the explosion shortly before midnight on July 26.

Operations are still ongoing to capture the perpetrators. (PNA)