Clash in Taguig, bombs in Antipolo
By Jaymee T. GamilPolitical tensions got physical and potentially explosive in two cities with a few days to go before the May 13 elections.
Political tensions got physical and potentially explosive in two cities with a few days to go before the May 13 elections.
A home-made bomb exploded Tuesday night near a private airport of the mining company Rio Tuba Nickel Corporation in Palawan’s southernmost town of Bataraza, about 225 kilometers from this city. No one was reported hurt.
An improvised bomb was found inside a car brought in for auto care service at a Toyota dealership shop in Alaminos, Laguna, at noon Wednesday.
“What are security guards looking for when they check your vehicles at parking lots or search your bags at mall entrances? Do they really know what they’re looking for?”
The death toll from a huge car bomb attack in a Shiite Muslim dominated area of Pakistan’s largest city Karachi on Sunday has risen to at least 45, the city’s top official said.
A suspected member of an extortion gang behind the series of bomb attacks on a bus company in Central Mindanao has been killed in a clash with law enforcers, according to police.
Authorities said they had prevented what could have been a bloody Friday morning in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, with the timely discovery and defusion of a twin bomb planted just outside the sentry post at the town hall’s gates.
An explosive device which dropped from the underneath of a police officer’s car in Belfast on Sunday was a “viable bomb”, Northern Irish police said.
Soon, workers wearing protective gear would scour at least 21 Mindanao areas for unexploded bombs and land mines in a campaign being launched by a Geneva-based group with the help of the Philippine government and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Two bomb explosions jolted Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao Monday morning, killing a Moro rebel and wounding seven comrades.
The death toll from a bomb blast near a Shiite religious procession in northwest Pakistan on Saturday has risen to seven, including four children, officials said.
A bomb exploded near a Shiite religious procession in northwest Pakistan Saturday killing three people and wounding more than a dozen, police said.
Authorities on Friday defused a bomb packed into a motorcycle abandoned along the path of the convoy of Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu, who was on his way to a village here to attend the third anniversary rites of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre, which claimed the lives of 58 people, including his wife, several relatives and supporters, and 32 media workers.
