PHOTO-VIDEO NEWS: Jolo blasts – Military blames Abu Sayyaf
MIDDAY MAYHEM. Only the skeleton of a motorcycle remains after suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists planted a bomb on it as it was parked beside a military truck and a supermarket in Jolo City on Monday. The resulting explosion—and a second bomb set off by a female suicide bomber—led to the deaths of 15 persons (including a young child, inset below) and injuries to 76 others. AFP and Sen. Richard Gordon via Philippine Red Cross on Twitter.
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Military blames Abu Sayyaf operator Mundi Sawadjaan for terror attack
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.The first explosion from a bomb planted in a motorcycle rocked Jolo, Sulu province, just before noon on Monday. An hour later, a second blast came a hundred meters away, when a soldier accosted a woman wearing suspiciously swollen clothing, according to authorities.
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This August 24, 2020 shows the aftermath of the twin explosions that killed at least nine people, including four Army troopers, and injured 18 others in Jolo, Sulu.
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MIDDAY MAYHEM. Only the skeleton of a motorcycle remains after suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists planted a bomb on it as it was parked beside a military truck and a supermarket in Jolo City on Monday. The resulting explosion—and a second bomb set off by a female suicide bomber—led to the deaths of 15 persons (including a young child, inset below) and injuries to 76 others. AFP and Sen. Richard Gordon via Philippine Red Cross on Twitter.
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Sonny Abing, Sulu provincial information officer, said those hit in the second bomb explosion were the responding soldiers and policemen.
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