Friday, June 08, 2007
11 wounded in bus bomb in southern RP (Updated 7:20 p.m.)
MANILA -- Suspected Muslim militants remotely detonated a powerful bomb in a bus parked at a terminal in the southern Philippines Friday, wounding 11 people, police said.
The device was placed in a carton under a seat near the rear of the bus, police said.
The blast seriously wounded the driver of a van parked beside the bus and four other people at the terminal, including a 10-year-old boy, said Superintendent Federico Dulay, the Cotabato provincial police chief.
Six others were treated for cuts from flying debris but were sent home, said Senior Inspector Ellas Colona, town police chief of Matalam, 920 kilometers (575 miles) southeast of the capital, Manila.
"The bombers really intended to harm or kill people by placing the powerful explosive inside the bus," Dulay said.
He said investigators believe the bomb may have been fashioned from a 60 mm mortar and triggered by a cell phone after fragments of the explosive projectile and a mobile phone were recovered at the scene. (AP)
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