A powerful homemade bomb tore through a packed public market in the southern Philippine city of Tacurong on Tuesday, killing three people and seriously wounding 33, police said.
The military said the attack bore the hallmarks of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the Al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm which has, according to latest intelligence, linked up with Philippines-based militants.
The bombing came came just a week before national elections and two weeks after US warnings of imminent terror attacks in the area.
Witnesses reported a horrific scene of dead and bleeding wounded strewn about the smoking rubble of a billiards hall in the market where bomb squad officers said the device had been placed.
Entire article here.
The military said the attack bore the hallmarks of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the Al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian arm which has, according to latest intelligence, linked up with Philippines-based militants.
The bombing came came just a week before national elections and two weeks after US warnings of imminent terror attacks in the area.
Witnesses reported a horrific scene of dead and bleeding wounded strewn about the smoking rubble of a billiards hall in the market where bomb squad officers said the device had been placed.
Entire article here.
Just one of a few isolated bombings on average every day...
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God of the Universe loves
beheadings of schoolgirls
kill Christians, Buddhists and Jews
peacefully burn down their homes
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