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| Campus bombing injures 24 in Mindanao |
| 2014-01-14 |
| Philippine police said that at least 24 people were injured, 17 of them in critical condition, when a fragmentation grenade exploded inside the campus of a government-run school in North Cotabato province in Mindanao. Police chief Rolly Oranza said the attack occurred on Sunday night inside the campus of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology in Arakan, North Cotabato. He said initial investigations suggest the still unidentified suspects first set fire to a building inside the campus, which housed the school’s security personnel. Oranza added that as the firemen, policemen, teachers and students rushed to the scene, a suspect lobbed the fragmentation grenade into the crowd. He said, “The fire drew a big crowd including teachers and students and they were among the wounded." Oranza said they have not yet established the motive for the bombing which came after security personnel discovered an improvised explosive device planted at the flagpole of the school last September. No group has taken responsibility the bombing. The attack follows a recent series of encounters between Philippine government forces and members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fights (BIFF) that killed at least nine people. |
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