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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]
A bomb exploded at Plaza Ferguson in Malate, Manila, less than a hundred meters from the United States Embassy. [1] Another detonated at a gasoline station just outside the Makati central business district. The site was along EDSA, across the street from the Dusit Hotel in Makati. Two members of the local police bomb squad died as a result. [1] [4]
Subsequent action by government prosecutors made Salapuddin and Hataman, together with the latter's brother, Benjamin "Jim" Hataman, suspects and masterminds in the bombing. [ 12 ] On December 14, 2007, in a 2-page resolution, the Supreme Court of the Philippines issued a writ of habeas corpus on the petition of suspects Caidar Aunal, Adham ...
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 Mindanao bombings was a series of seemingly unrelated bomb attacks that took place on July 4, 5, and 7, 2009 in the towns of Datu Piang and Jolo, and the cities of Cotabato and Iligan in Mindanao, Philippines. The bombings killed around 7 people and injured at least 66.
The 1972 Manila bombings were a series of "about twenty explosions in Metro Manila in the months after the Plaza Miranda bombing and immediately preceding Ferdinand Marcos' proclamation of Martial Law". [1] The came on March 15, 1972, and the last took place on September 11, 1972 - twelve days before martial law was announced on September 23.
A bomb blast in front of a Malagutay district [1] karaoke bar near a military arms depot [4] in Zamboanga City killed an American Green Beret commando and three Filipino civilians. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At least 25 other people, one of them another American trooper, were wounded in the blast. [ 5 ]
The attacks took place at a tactical command post of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the Philippine Army in Barangay Kajatian. The first bomber detonated their improvised explosive device while being inspected at the military facility's gate [3] while a second bomber described as an individual with a short stature wearing black and a bonnet ran into the camp shortly after the first attack.