Thursday, March 15, 2012

Homemade bomb kills 2, wounds 19 outside southern Philippine air base

A homemade bomb exploded outside an air force base in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 19 others in a possible attack by al-Qaida-linked militants, police said.

The cell phone-detonated bomb was apparently concealed in one of several bags of civilian commuters waiting to hitch a ride on an air force C-130 cargo plane outside Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga city, police Chief Superintendent Jaime Caringal said.

A man and a woman, both waiting to get on the plane, were killed in the blast and 19 others were wounded, he said.

Caringal said no one had claimed responsibility for the blast, which also damaged …

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