Eerie parallels between Serendra explosion, 2007 Glorietta blast | News | GMA News Online

Authorities are investigating eerie similarities between the blast at Two Serendra in Taguig last Friday and the 2007 explosion in Glorietta Mall that killed 11. Both are Ayala properties that were initially thought to be targets of bomb attacks.

A government fact-finding panel concluded in 2011 that the 2007 tragedy was caused by a methane gas leak, but Ayala insisted for years that it was a bomb, citing traces of the chemical compound RDX, a bomb ingredient. After dogs failed to sniff bomb traces in Serendra last weekend, probers are once again exploring the possibility of a gas leak.