CLARK FREEPORT — A series of booming sound heard in parts of the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat around this freeport kept many local folk flooding social media with inquiries at about 5 p.m. Sunday.
Swamped with inquiries, the state-owned Clark Development Corp. (CDC) contacted the Philippine Air Force (PAF) which occupies some 300 hectares of this freeport and got an explanation.
CDC corporate information chief Noel Tulabut said the PAF Explosives and Ordnance Division confirmed explosions in the area of Crow Valley north of this former US Air Force Base in Tarlac.
“It was in that area that the PAF allowed the Bataan police to rid of blasting caps and containers,” Tulabut said, but provided no more details.
The Crow Valley is known as a bombing and gunnery range used by the US Air Force before they permanently left their military base here in 1991.
It is about 42-miles from the main Clark freeport and remains a military reservation under the PAF and is still used for live bombing and gunnery exercises during joint Philippines-US military exercises.
