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Bomber among three killed in Philippines coffee shop blast
Three people were killed and 15 others were wounded in a bomb explosion near a coffee shop in the southern Philippines on Monday, a regional paper and radio reports said.
- By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief
- Published: 23:16 June 29, 2009
Manila: Three people were killed and 15 others were wounded in a bomb explosion near a coffee shop in the southern Philippines on Monday, a regional paper and radio reports said.
A man who was trying to plant the bomb in a garbage bin in front of Bai Lanang Bakery and Coffee Bakery in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, was among the victims and his identity is being determined, Major Randolph Cabangbang, a military spokesman, said in a radio report.
The explosion was reported at around 6am, he added.
The bomb was one of three explosive devices that had been planted in the area, military and police sources said. A rogue faction of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was blamed for the attack, they added.
But MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu denied the allegation.
Last August 2008, rogue MILF commanders attacked Christian-dominated villages in the south, when the Supreme Court prevented government and MILF negotiators from signing a land deal that was to expand an existing autonomous region for Filipino-Muslims in the south.
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