Probers tracing cars that carried victims of Bar exams blast

Investigators from the Manila Police District (MPD) are currently tracking down the vehicles used to transport victims of the Bar examination explosion last Sunday, a local police official said Saturday. The MPD has already coordinated with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to trace the owners of vehicles used to bring the blast's casualties to hospitals based on closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera images obtained by local police, Inspector Armando Macaraeg of the MPD Homicide Section said Saturday. “We can get vital information from the owners of the vehicles. They could be in the site of the blast and could give information for possible identification of the suspect or suspects," Macaraeg said. He added that the MPD already has the plate number of a van which carried some of the victims to a nearby hospital. About 47 people were hurt after an explosion, which police traced to a World War II-vintage fragmentation grenade, ripped through a crowd last Sunday near the De La Salle University (DLSU) campus along Taft Avenue, where law school graduates had just finished taking the Bar examinations this year. The MPD probers earlier said that they are now veering away from the possible involvement of fraternities in the incident, and are instead focusing on the “individual liability" of the suspects in the blast. (See: DLSU blast probers veer away from fraternities)—Andreo C. Calonzo/JV, GMANews.TV