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| One dead, six hurt in Philippines blast: police |
| 2011-08-03 |
| [Dawn] A suspected cycle of violence bomb killed one person and maimed six others in a huge blast at a drugstore in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, police said. Local amateur photographer, Gemana Ali, 53, was killed in the kaboom, Superintendent Roberto Badian, the police chief of the southern city of Cotabato said. A seven-year-old boy was in a critical condition in hospital. "It appears the bomb was triggered by a cell phone," Badian told news hounds, adding no group had grabbed credit. He said the remotely-triggered improvised bomb was hidden in a cycle of violence that had been abandoned near the drugstore and a gun shop. "Initial reports (show) the explosives were kept inside a single cycle of violence," said Chief Superintendent Benjardi Mantele, the police chief for the region. Cotabato, a city of 164,000 people, has in the past been a target of Mohammedan separatists and Death Eaters linked to the Al-Qaeda movement, whose global leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who knows that it's like to live in the belly of a whale only he's not living... was killed in a US military raid in Pakistain on May 2. The attack occurred as Cotabato, a Christian-Mohammedan trading post on the troubled main southern island of Mindanao, observed the second day of Ramadan, the holy fasting month of Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |