SULU, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Feb. 01, 2009) – Two men were killed after a powerful homemade bomb exploded Sunday inside their house in the southern Filipino island of Sulu, police said.
Police said three others, two of them childre, were wounded in the blast that occurred in the coastal town of Patikul. The house was also damaged from the explosion.
“The two men were known manufacturers of homemade explosives used in illegal fishing,” Senior Supt. Julasirim Kasim, the island’s police, told the Mindanao Examiner.
He said explosion decapitated the body of one of the victim and the second man died in hospital. “This should serve as a warning to fishermen not to resort to blast fishing because not only it is illegal, it is also dangerous and deadly,” Kasim said.
Kasim said they found ammonium nitrate used by the victims in manufacturing homemade explosives. He said the two men came from Tawi-Tawi Island and had been renting the house since last week.
The chemicals are widely used as fertilizer and an ingredient to homemade explosive common in blast fishing.
The Philippines in 2002 has banned imports of ammonium nitrate over fears it is being used in explosives, but the chemicals are also being smuggled by unscrupulous into the country from the Malaysian state of Sabah that borders the island of Tawi-Tawi. (Mindanao Examiner)
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