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Grenade blast kills 3 kids in Philippine public market

AP | By, Iiligan (philippines)
Oct 21, 2007 04:58 PM IST

A man hurled a grenade into a crowd near a public market in a southern Philippine city, killing three children and wounding six other people.

A man hurled a grenade into a crowd near a public market in a southern Philippine city, killing three children and wounding six other people, police said on Sunday.

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Police arrested a man who witnesses claimed threw the grenade late yesterday near the market in Iligan city, in an area where candidates were holding a campaign rally ahead of October 29 village elections, said police investigator Enrique Belacaol.

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Belacaol said witnesses claimed the man, who was being investigated, pulled the grenade's pin and put the explosive in a bag before hurling it toward a crowd, where it killed three children, wounded six other people and caused panic.



Iligan, about 780 km southeast of Manila, is in a region with a large number of unlicensed firearms and numerous armed groups maintained by political warlords.

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