MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine president blamed “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people Sunday, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert.
The
suspected bomb, which the police said was made from a mortar round,
went off and hit students and teachers who attended a Mass in a
gymnasium at Mindanao State University in southern Marawi city, Taha
Mandangan, the security chief of the state-run campus, told The
Associated Press by telephone. ---More...