Two separate blasts rocked the restive southern Philippines and killed six civilians Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 12 in bombings there over the past three days, officials said.
Around 7:50 a.m. local time (2350 GMT Monday), an improvised bomb — attached to a motorcycle — went off in front of a store, about 100 meters from a Mt. Carmel church in Jolo, Sulu province, killing two civilians and wounded about 40 others, including three policemen responding to the information from civilians who noticed protruding electrical wires on the parked motorcycle. Many of the injured were in critical condition and soon the fatalities went up to six.
After the blast, two more unexploded improvised explosive devices were recovered by bomb experts, which were sealed inside a cardboard box a few meters away from the church in Jolo proper.
