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A bombing occurred where at least 8 people were killed and 40 others injured after a car bomb exploded in Cotabato City, Maguindanao province in the Philippines. [127] [128] It is the worst such attack ever in Cotabato City. [129] The police released photos of suspects the day after the bombing. [129]
Police said that the bombing was not a suicide attack. [9] An eyewitness reportedly saw a man placing a bag believed to contain the bomb, [15] while CCTV footage showed the two suspected bombers arriving at the gymnasium on a motorcycle at around 7:03 a.m. and stood there for eight minutes. [16] The explosion produced a crater in the gymnasium ...
The Philippine Army had released the images of four suspects in connection with the attacks as captured by the CCTV footage. [39] The authorities, including the country's president, did not rule out the possibility that the explosion was the work of suicide bombers.
But Dr. Rommel C. Banlaoi, Chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) and former Professor of Political Science at the National Defense College of the Philippines, argues that a suicide bombing involving a Filipino is no longer surprising as the Tausugs in Mindanao have the long history of suicide ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Sunday that killed at least four people and injured 50 others. The ...
[11] [12] As the bombing happened in the midst of the investigation of the shooting, the military stated the incident have disrupted the intelligence operations that might have averted the bombings, and raised a possible motive that the police officers are connected with the suicide bombers.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr condemned a deadly bombing on Sunday, blaming “foreign terrorists,” as police and the military strengthened security in the country’s south and ...
The MILF and the MNLF were later cleared by the Philippine National Police of any involvement in the attacks. Fathur Rahman Al-Ghozi , an Indonesian national and member of the known terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah , was convicted and sentenced to 17 years in prison for illegal possession of explosives in relation to the Rizal Day bombing ...