COTABATO CITY, Philippines -- (UPDATE 2 - 11:41 a.m.) Seven Army soldiers were wounded when a bomb exploded as a military convoy was passing by in Shariff Aguak, capital town of Maguindanao province, Wednesday morning. The blast was the third to hit Maguindanao and nearby North Cotabato since early Wednesday morning. The wounded soldiers, from the 12th Mechanized Company, were riding truck when the bomb went off in Barangay Nabundas around 9:30 a.m. The casualties were rushed to the Maguindanao provincial hospital. The first explosion shook Midsayap, North Cotabato around 3:30 a.m. The day before, authorities had warned residents to take precautions against in imminent terrorist attack, a local radio station owner said. At around 9 a.m., the second bomb went off near an Army detachment in Shariff Saidona Mustapha town in Maguindanao province. No casualties were reported in the first two incidents. The 3:30 a.m. explosion in Midsayap, on the ground floor of the Tenorio Building in Poblacion One, damaged a pawnshop and the canopy and glass windows of a salon, said Roger Sacdalan, owner of Wow FM. The explosions in Maguindanao happened as security officials met in Cotabato City on the Monday car bombing that killed eight persons and wounded at least 30 others. ( InterAksyon TV5)interaksyon/article/68109/bomb-explodes-in-midsayap-after-terror-warning
Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 04:04:32 +0000
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