MANILA - Two explosions rocked the insurgency-plagued town of Jolo in the southern Philippines on Monday (Aug 24), killing at least five people.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MANILA - Two explosions rocked the insurgency-plagued town of Jolo in the southern Philippines on Monday , killing at least five people.The target seemed to have been a military truck parked in front of a commercial building near the Jolo town plaza.A second blast happened at around 1pm, drawing parallel to a twin attack on a Catholic cathedral, also in Jolo, in January last year. At least 20 were killed and over 100 injured in that attack.
The counter-terrorism think tank Site Intelligence Group re-posted on its website a claim by Islamic State militants that six Filipino soldiers were killed. A Jakarta-based analyst said there were"an undetermined number of fatalities", both soldiers and civilians. Captain Rex Payot, a spokesman of Joint Task Force Sulu, said the soldiers involved were assisting officials coordinating the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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