RoP Strikes Again in Philippines
Charles Johnson
Wed Oct 11, 2006 at 9:56 am PDT • Views: 213
12 killed and 25 wounded in separate blasts in Philippines.
MANILA - At least 12 people were killed and 20 more were wounded when a bomb exploded during a town festival Tuesday in the southern Philippines, where security officials were put on alert for possible attacks by militants linked to Al Qaeda, the police said.
The North Cotabato provincial police chief, Federico Dulay, said the bomb, believed to have been made from an 88mm mortar shell, went off about 8 p.m. in front of the town hall of Makilala, a town in the southern part of the province.“Clearly this is a terrorist act,” Dulay said.
Another bomb wounded five people earlier Tuesday in a public market in Tacurong city, in southern Sultan Kudarat Province, as U.S. and Philippine officials said they had received credible intelligence that a terrorist group might be planning bombings in the southern Mindanao region, where the wife of a top Indonesian militant was captured last week.
The U.S. Embassy warned that it had received “credible information” about possible attacks, particularly in cities in central Mindanao, “over the next several days.”
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