LOOK: Improvised bomb kills 2, hurts 36 in Isulan, Sultan Kudarat

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat – Two were killed and 36 others were injured, two of them in serious condition, after an improvised bomb went off at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of J and H Marketing in Barangay Kalawag 3 here, police said.

Supt. Aldrin Gonzales, spokesperson for police in the SOCCSKSARGEN region, said the IED was placed inside a motorbike that was parked in front of the business establishment near the town’s ukay-ukay area.  /muf

Military and police bomb experts look for fragments of a homemade bomb that ent office at street festival Tuesday night, August 28, 2018 in the southern town of Isulan in Mindanao. Suspected pro Islamic State militants detonated a homemade bomb, leaving one dead and 35 others wounded, nearly a month after they also set off a car bomb that left eleven people dead in the Island province of Basilan. / Jeoffrey Maitem Inquirer Mindanao

Military and police bomb experts look for fragments of a homemade bomb that ent office at street festival Tuesday night, August 28, 2018 in the southern town of Isulan in Mindanao. Suspected pro Islamic State militants detonated a homemade bomb, leaving one dead and 35 others wounded, nearly a month after they also set off a car bomb that left eleven people dead in the Island province of Basilan. / Jeoffrey Maitem Inquirer Mindanao

Wounded victims in the bomb explosion are seen at the Sultan Kudarat Provincial Hospital in Isulan town in the southern Philippine province of Sultan Kudarat, Tuesday night, August 28, 2018. Suspected pro Islamic State militants detonated a homemade bomb, leaving one dead and 35 others wounded, nearly a month after they also set off a car bomb that left eleven people dead in the Island province of Basilan. / Jeoffrey Maitem Inquirer Mindanao

A wounded in the bomb explosion is seen at the Sultan Kudarat Provincial Hospital in Isulan town in the southern Philippine province of Sultan Kudarat, Tuesday night, August 28, 2018. Suspected pro Islamic State militants detonated a homemade bomb, leaving one dead and 35 others wounded, nearly a month after they also set off a car bomb that left eleven people dead in the Island province of Basilan. / Jeoffrey Maitem Inquirer Mindanao

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