No imminent terror threat – Lorenzana

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said there is no imminent threat of a terror attack monitored in the country so far.

- MARTIN A. SADONGDONG

He gave this assurance in the wake of the Japanese government’s issuance of an alert against possible heightened terror activities in six Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines.

Lorenzana, in an online press briefing Thursday, Sept. 16, revealed that the country's threat alert has been “moderate” since the last terror attacks occurred – the twin bombings of Jolo Cathedral in Sulu in January 2019 and the bombing of a military detachment in Lamitan, Basilan in 2018. Both were considered suicide bombings.