Thousands of people have fled their homes on the southern Philippine island of Jolo as troops pursue Muslim militants blamed for killing more than 20 soldiers, officials said on Saturday. Jolo brigade commander Colonel Anthony Supnet said his troops would continue to hunt the gunmen, even though they had broken up into smaller groups and scattered.
At least 30 people, including several children, were wounded on Sunday in a ferry bomb blast in an area of the southern Philippines plagued by Muslim insurgents, officials said. The crudely-made bomb was hidden among liquefied petroleum gas tanks, and the explosion ripped through the back section of the ferry as it was about to leave for Zamboanga.
A 41-year-old man with erectile dysfunction cut off his penis in a southern Philippine city, hospital staff said on Monday. Ernesto Almonte was rushed by his father to a hospital late on Sunday in Zamboanga City, 875km south of Manila, after he cut off his penis.
The Philippine military condemned two bomb attacks on Thursday that hit a row of shopping centres in the southern city of Zamboanga as a ”terrorist act”.
Philippine authorities are looking into the possible role of ”foreign terrorists” in a series of deadly bomb attacks in the country’s south, officials said on Monday.
