A GRENADE was lobbed at the residence of House Deputy Speaker Rufus B. Rodriguez in Cagayan de Oro (CdO) City on Wednesday, but it did not explode.
“Lives were put at risk in the grenade attack at the ancestral residence of the Rodriguez family in Barangay Nazareth in Cagayan de Oro City earlier today,” Mr. Rodriguez said in a statement posted on his Twitter account.
He told reporters that the grenade was thrown at around 1:12 a.m. by two unknown motorcycle-riding men.
No one was harmed in the incident, which is now being investigated by local authorities.
The incident comes days before the Oct. 1 start of filing of certificates of candidacy for the 2022 elections. — Russell Louis C. Ku