DO YOU KNOW what’s that he stuck to his arm? That’s a toy ‘Spinner’. HOW is it stuck to his arm do you want to know??
There’s still💥‘grenade fragments’ in his body.
The Story..
The Zamboanga Incident.
Twenty nine yrs ago we were involved in a grenade attack by terrorists which at the time was a rogue group by now the world knows it by the name of Abu Sayyaf.
We were a crew onboard a FG (foreign-going) vessel a long time ago when we were younger.🙂He was a AB seaman, I was a Deck Cadet. We worked on a humanitarian ship for ..
On August 1991, we arrived in Port Zamboanga. Too cut the long story short, we had various programmes and events lined up for ..
Fortunately I was not involved for this particular night as we were short of personnel for our particular item, the Malaysian Dance - which at the time was very popular in the almost every port but this! It would have been a different outcome...
I was not at the venue, which was not far from our ship. Only a mere 10 minutes walk. The venue that the International Night was held was in a Ferry Terminal that had a semi-open structured building.
Fifteen minutes later, it happened….
Almost at the end of the night while the..
I had just arrived back to my cabin after stopping over the venue 15 minutes before, halfway undressing to take a shower when I heard the ‘7 rings & 1 long ring’ on the ship’s alarm system, the General Alarm.
It was like a scene from a horror monster movie when you see scores of people running away from something. This incident is too long to tell everything, even right now,..
That whole night till the next day we were on ‘special watch’. I was still feeling ’numb’, confused, sad and lost not until the early morning on Sunday was I a little calmer.
2 dead, 43 wounded.
Our next port after Zamboanga was Tawau, Malaysia. On Sunday afternoon the authoriies prepared a mercy flight to transport our injured to Manila in a Philippine Air Force C-130.
We spent 2 weeks there healing and recuperating especially for us the remaining crew members who involved in this whole incident.