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Blast wounds 7 people at public market in southern Philippines

Published 09/07/2019, 11:56 AM
Updated 09/07/2019, 12:00 PM
Blast wounds 7 people at public market in southern Philippines

MANILA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - An explosion at a public market
in the southern Philippines wounded at least seven people early
on Saturday, the fourth blast in that area in 13 months, the
military said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the
blast, but a militant group operating in the mostly Christian
city of Isulan in the province of Sultan Kudarat was among the
suspects, military said.
The latest blast comes at a time of heightened tensions in
the volatile southern Philippines after three incidents in the
past year authorities said were suicide bombings by militants
linked to the Islamic State.
Video footage showed Saturday's blast occurred in a parking
space for motorcycles. A suspected improvised explosive device
was placed beside a parked motorcycle, Major Arvin Encinas, a
regional military spokesman, told reporters.
In April, a bombing by suspected members of a pro-Islamic
State militant group injured at least 18 people in a restaurant
in Sultan Kudarat in Mindanao region. Mindanao is troubled by banditry and armed rebellions that
keep large parts of the region mired in poverty and instability.
Islamist militants operate in the south of the predominantly
Roman Catholic nation country and some are known to have links
with groups abroad, including al Qaeda and Islamic State.

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