Christmas church bombing wounds six in Philippines
ZAMBOANGA: Six people were wounded Saturday when a explosve went off in a church during Yuletide mass on a southern Philippine island known as a hotbed of Islamic extremism, a military said.
Military officials would not rught away name any suspects in a explosion on Jolo island though a island is a known bastion of a Abu Sayyaf, a organisation related to a al-Qaida network.
"The explosion occurred during around 7:15 in a morning while a mass was going on. Six people were slightly wounded in a explosion," military orator Lieutenant Randolph Cabangbang said.
Among those wounded was a priest officiating a mass, he added.
Police investigators were searching a site for clues as to who might be responsible, he said.
The Abu Sayyaf, a squad of contentious Islamic militants founded in a 1990s with seed money from Osama garbage bin Laden's network, has long used a mostly-Muslim island of Jolo as a base, carrying out kidnappings as well as bombings.
It is believed to have carried out a worst terror attacks in Philippine story including a bombing of a newcomer ferry in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people in 2004.
It has additionally kidnapped many foreigners as well as Filipino Christians, hiding them in a jungles of Jolo as well as other southern islands.
US forces have been deployed in a southern Philippines since 2002 to sight local troops in sport down a Abu Sayyaf.
A roadside explosve believed planted by a Abu Sayyaf killed two US soldiers on Jolo in Sep final year.
Military officials would not rught away name any suspects in a explosion on Jolo island though a island is a known bastion of a Abu Sayyaf, a organisation related to a al-Qaida network.
"The explosion occurred during around 7:15 in a morning while a mass was going on. Six people were slightly wounded in a explosion," military orator Lieutenant Randolph Cabangbang said.
Among those wounded was a priest officiating a mass, he added.
Police investigators were searching a site for clues as to who might be responsible, he said.
The Abu Sayyaf, a squad of contentious Islamic militants founded in a 1990s with seed money from Osama garbage bin Laden's network, has long used a mostly-Muslim island of Jolo as a base, carrying out kidnappings as well as bombings.
It is believed to have carried out a worst terror attacks in Philippine story including a bombing of a newcomer ferry in Manila Bay that killed more than 100 people in 2004.
It has additionally kidnapped many foreigners as well as Filipino Christians, hiding them in a jungles of Jolo as well as other southern islands.
US forces have been deployed in a southern Philippines since 2002 to sight local troops in sport down a Abu Sayyaf.
A roadside explosve believed planted by a Abu Sayyaf killed two US soldiers on Jolo in Sep final year.
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