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Sunday, February 19, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Those causing unnecessary public fear through bomb scares will be prosecuted, warned Mayor Evelio Leonardia.
“These acts are stressing our schools and the entire community,” he said.
Presidential Decree No. 1727 declares as unlawful the malicious dissemination of false information or the willful making of any threat concerning bombs, explosives or any similar devices or means of destruction.
The city police responded to two hoax bomb threats last week. On Monday, a business establishment was victimized by a prank caller who claimed a bomb would explode in the store.
The following day, a staff of Trinity Christian School received a telephone call from an unidentified man who claimed a bomb had been planted in the private school. Classes were suspended for the rest of the day.
Just this Jan. 30, a bomb scare also cancelled classes at the Visayan Maritime Academy Global College and Training Center Inc.
A similar incident also happened at the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos late last year.
Section 1 of Presidential Decree No. 1727 states: “Any person who, by word of mouth or through the use of the mail, telephone, telegraph, printed materials and other instrument or means of communication, willfully makes any threat or maliciously conveys, communicates, transmits, imparts, passes on, or otherwise disseminates false information, knowing the same to be false, concerning an attempt or alleged attempt being made to kill, injure, or intimidate any individual or unlawfully to damage or destroy any building, vehicle, or other real or personal property, by means of explosives, incendiary devices, and other destructive forces of similar nature or characteristics, shall upon conviction be punished with imprisonment of not more than five years, or a fine or not more than P40,000, or both at the discretion of the court having jurisdiction over the offense herein defined and penalized.” (PNA)
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