EOD detonates bomb found in IT Park

The vintage bomb found at a construction site in the IT Park in barangay Apas, Cebu City was detonated past 12 noon yesterday.

Members of the Explosives and Ordinance Disposal (EOD) disposed the 2,000-pound bomb at the Carmen Copper in Toledo City, southwest Cebu.
The bomb was brought to the mining site last Wednesday, four days after it was discovered by the construction workers at the IT Park, said Captain Kelvin Bayaban of the Task Force Cebu.

Workers in seven IT park buildings and residents near the area were evacuated when a vintage bomb was extracted.

Employees from Teleperformance, Skyrise 1 and 2, CJRS, Ebloc Tower 1, Ebloc Tower 4, Avida Towers Riala, and Avida Towers Cebu had to evacuate their buildings while experts from the Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit extracted the World War II bomb. Chief Insp. Clark Arriola said about 10,000 employees were asked to evacuate.

The removal of the bomb began at 3 a.m. and ended around 6:30 a.m.

The bomb was then transported to Carmen Copper for its disposal.

“The business routine in Cebu IT Park is now back to normal situation,” he said in a statement to the media.

Some people working in IT Park in Barangay Apas panicked after posts on several Facebook accounts about the discovery of the vintage bomb went viral.

Chief Supt. Jose Mario Espino, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas, was quick to quell worries from the people.