Philippine police defused a bomb found in a rubbish bin near the US embassy in Manila Monday, authorities said.
Bomb defused near US embassy
Police sent a team to disintegrate the device shortly after it was reported to authorities.
A police bomb disposal expert works to defuse a bomb found in a rubbish bin near the US embassy in Manila on November 28, 2016
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The police chief of the national capital region told AFP an improvised explosive device composed of a cellphone, blasting cap, 9-volt battery and 81-millimetre mortar was found by a street sweeper about 200 meters from the embassy.
"Most probably there was an intention to bomb the area because there's a detonating device, a cellphone, but this is still under investigation," chief superintendent Oscar Albayalde said in a phone interview.
Police sent a team to "disintegrate" the device shortly after it was reported to authorities, Albayalde added.
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Albayalde said police still had no suspect and were interviewing witnesses while seeking to obtain CCTV footage of the area.
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