Monday, February 11, 2008 
Dynamite blast kills fisherman 

TWO months after an explosion killed a man and seriously injured his 
12-year-old son, dynamite fishing also caused the death of another 
fisherman in the waters off Barangay Marigondon, Lapu-Lapu City yesterday 
morning.=20 

The incident angered Mayor Arturo Radaza, who ordered Acting City Police 
Director Louie Oppus to tighten surveillance on Barangay Babag=92s 
firecracker manufacturers and to trace the dynamite fuse supplier.=20 

Rosales Intong, 47, survived a dynamite explosion five years ago. He was 
not so lucky the second time.=20 

He was about to toss a homemade dynamite into the water before 9 a.m. 
yesterday when it went off.=20 

The explosion severed his right hand, severely burned his face and neck, 
and wrecked his small boat.=20 

The blast caught the attention of residents, including a couple who used a= 

small boat to retrieve Intong=92s body.=20 

=93Maningil gyod ang kinaiyahan (Nature always exacts a price),=94 said PO= 
3 
Manolito Abellanosa, homicide investigator, after checking Intong=92s 
remains at the St. Francis Funeral Homes.=20 

Babag has long been known as source of firecrackers and pyrotechnic produc= 
ts.=20 

The manufacturers buy black powder, an explosive component, from Talisay 
City and neighboring Visayas provinces.=20 

Abellanosa identified Jose Amodia and his wife Joan, aided by a local 
fisherman, as the ones who brought Intong=92s body ashore.=20 

Never again=20 

Jeffrey, Intong=92s eldest son, said that over five years ago, his father 
lost four left fingers when he used dynamite while fishing off Olango Isla= 
nd.=20 

=93Pero wala na ko kabalo sir kon sige pa ba siya kay minyo naman ko (But = 
I 
no longer knew that he was still into illegal fishing after I married and 
went my way),=94 he said, adding that he ... Читать дальше »