page_title: 2010 Philippine Bar exam bombing
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 Philippine Bar exam bombing / Background
caption_attribution_description: Velasco Hall of DLSU-Manila. Self-taken
context_page_description: The 2010 Philippine Bar exam bombing occurred on Taft Avenue near De La Salle University, located in Malate, Manila, Philippines, on September 26, 2010, at 5:05 pm PST, a few minutes after Philippine Bar examinees began exiting DLSU. A Mk2 grenade was thrown at a group of Alpha Phi Beta members from San Beda College. They were standing near Tau Gamma Phi members, who police believed were the real target of the explosive. This resulted in injuries to 47 people, including two who required amputations.
  Jed Carlos Lazaga was initially accused of throwing the grenade, based on information received by the Manila Police District from an unnamed witness. This theory was later dismissed when the National Bureau of Investigation took over the case.
  Anthony Leal Nepomuceno, NBI's prime suspect and an Alpha Phi Omega member, surrendered to Jejomar Binay, Vice President of the Philippines, on October 27. Fellow APO members, Binay, and former Department of Justice Secretary Silvestre Bello III, asserted Nepomuceno's innocence. Binay's actions were criticized by several members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, who said Nepomuceno was cleared prematurely.
context_section_description: De La Salle University is a private La Sallian university located on a 5.45 ha (13.5-acre) campus in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It faces Taft Avenue, a major thoroughfare named after William Howard Taft. DLSU had a population of 888 faculty and 15,779 students in 2009.
  The Philippine Bar exams have been held at DLSU since 2002. An average of over 5,000 examinees used its buildings for the test. For the 2010 exam, 5,012 examinees took the test in 121 rooms inside six DLSU buildings. The number of examinees was lower than the 6,080 who took the test in 2009.
caption: Velasco Hall, one of the buildings used during the Bar exams
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