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| Terror attack foiled in S. Philippines |
| 2011-08-14 |
| (Xinhua) -- State security forces foiled Saturday a terror attack in the southern Philippines, a day after a homemade bomb killed two suspected bombers in the restive south. Army Col. Prudencio Asto, a regional military front man, said government bomb experts defused two improvised bombs fashioned from a mortar shell recovered near the bus depot in the southern city of Tacurong in Sultan Kudarat province. "We are trying to find out the group behind the foiled attack," Asto said. On Friday, two suspected bombers were killed early Friday when their bomb prematurely went kaboom!in front of the office of National Irrigation Administration in Amas village in the southern city of Kidapawan. A security guard was also maimed. On Aug. 2, two people were killed when a bomb went kaboom!in front of a gun store in the city of Cotabato. The incident forced United Kingdom to renew their warning against their citizens from travelling to Mindanao due to high threats from terrorism. |
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