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| Nine wounded in southern Philippine bomb attack |
| 2009-06-27 |
| Nine people were wounded in a bomb attack at a bus terminal in the southern Philippines, police said. The blast, the latest in a string of attacks in the south over the past few months, hit in the town of Tacurong on Mindanao island, regional police spokesman Chief Inspector Alexander Sarabia said. While no one has claimed responsibility for Saturday's blast, the military said they have reason to believe it was carried out by a "special operations group" of the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). "The planned bombing activities targetting bus terminals and military installations clearly ... is a part of their diversionary effort to inflict casualties," regional army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Ponce said. "These rogue MILF groups are very desperate," he said, adding that a military ordnance team was helping police secure the area around the attack to make sure there are no follow-up blasts. |
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