Most bomb scares happen during exam

week
By Aie Balagtas See, The Philippine Star
Posted at 08/02/2014 8:53 AM | Updated as of 08/02/2014 8:54 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Seven out of 10 bomb scares that rocked the city of Manila this year came from universities
and colleges during the exam week, investigators said Friday.
The Manila Police District (MPD) bomb squad revealed this after a bomb scare disrupted the preliminary exams week
of Far Eastern University (FEU) on Thursday morning.
MPD bomb squad chief Inspector Arnold Santos told The STAR that he received 10 reports from January to July.
Seven out of them came from universities the latest of which came from FEU and University of Santo Tomas on
Wednesday morning.
I noticed that most of the bomb scares happened during exam week, he said.
There was a bomb scare at (De La Salle - College of Saint) Benilde also during exam week. Their schedule is
trimestral, he added.
Santos blamed naughty students for the bomb scares, which forces schools to suspend classes to allow the bomb
squad to check the whole building and sometimes the whole school compound.
Like two weeks ago, grenades which turned out to be duds were lobbed in front of a building along Taft Avenue.
In an earlier interview, Santos said students unprepared for the exam or those who failed to pay the tuition were
behind the pranks.