One Philippine soldier was killed and another wounded when a crude bomb exploded near an airport in the troubled south of the country, a military official said on Saturday. Philippine Muslim rebels linked to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network were suspected of planting two bombs, including the one that went off outside a government building near the runway of Jolo airport on Friday. "We are looking at the possibility that the bombs were placed to avenge the arrest of Ghalib Andang," southern command armed forces chief Lieutenant General Roy Kyamko said, referring to a leader of the Abu Sayyaf militant group.
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Andang, widely known as Commander Robot, was captured by soldiers on December 7. He was believed responsible for kidnapping 21 people from a Malaysian tourist resort in 2000. The two soldiers were trying to defuse the bomb, which had been left in a cardboard box, when it went off. The other bomb was defused. |