IN February 2020, this column was riled by an incident in the town of San Pascual in Masbate where the MV Virgen de Peñafrancia, a ro-ro vessel operated by the Lucena City-based Starhorse Shipping Lines Inc. (SSLI), was rocked by what were initially reported as dynamite blasts but eventually determined to be actually grenade explosions.

Here is how this column reported the incident:

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