MAGUINDANAO (Juan Magtanggol / 10 Oct) - A powerful homemade exploded late Tuesday in Makilala town North Cotabato province in the southern Philippines and killing at least a dozen people, police and military reports said.
The reports said the bombing near the town hall of Makilala also wounded more than 20 people. The attack, the second in eight hours, occurred as villagers were celebrating the town's founding day.
But a provincial spokesman, Carlos Bautista, claimed that initial reports he got only 5 people had died. "Initial reports said 5 people were killed and at least 20 others are wounded in the blast," he told the Mindanao Examiner by phone.
Military and police journals said the bomb used in the latest attack was assembled from an 81mm mortar, the same two unidentified men detonated at 12.30 p.m. at a market in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province that left two people dead and four more wounded.
The two bombings came just a week after security forces arrested the Indonesian wife - Istiada Oemar Sovie and her two boys ages 6 and 8 – of a Jemaah Islamiya militant, Dulmatin, in Jolo island.
Two women were killed and three more women and a man wounded in the Tacurong bombing.
No group or individual claimed responsibility for the twin bombings and military and police were not sure at this early whether the attacks had been carried out by the Abu Sayyaf or the Jemaah Islamiya, or if they were in retaliation to the capture of Dulmatin's wife. (Mindanao Examiner)
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