Explosive experts defused an improvised explosive planted at a waiting shed along the national highway in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines on Friday, July 24, 2009. Early this month, a bomb explosion ripped through a stall selling roasted pig outside a Catholic church in Cotabato City. Six people were killed in the blast. The spate of deadly bombings in the Philippines were blamed by authorities to Moro rebels and the Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiya which was tagged as behind the attacks on JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta recently. (Mindanao Examiner Photo / Mark Navales)
COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / July 24, 2009) - Military bomb experts have defused late Friday an improvised explosive planted at a waiting shed in Cotabato City in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said the bomb was believed planted by Moro rebels. The discovery of the explosive came a day after President Gloria Arroyo ordered the military to halt offensives against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the country's largest Muslim rebel group fighting the past three decades for self-determination.
Early this month, a bomb explosion ripped through a stall selling roasted pig outside a Catholic church in Cotabato City. Six people were killed in the blast.
The spate of deadly bombings in the Philippines were blamed by authorities to Moro rebels and the Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiya which was tagged as behind the attacks on JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta recently. (With a report from Mark Navales)
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