Twin explosions hit Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Two explosions occurred here shortly after noon Sunday but authorities said they could not provide details of the incident yet.

Senior Superintendent Edwin de Ocampo, acting city police chief, said the explosions caused by still undetermined devices occurred minutes apart in Barangay San Roque and Barangay Guiwan here.

He declined to provide additional details, saying the police were
still investigating.

Bomb attacks by suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen had been recorded here in recent years, killing or wounding dozens of civilians.

These included the October 2002 explosion at the Fort Pilar Shrine
here, in which a soldier was killed.

In May 2008, two people were also killed and more than a dozen others wounded when a bomb went off outside the base of the Philippine Air
Force here.

The blast also damaged a building in front of the military base, where US soldiers, maintain a small camp.