MANILA, Dec 26 Kyodo A homemade b...

MANILA, Dec 26 Kyodo

A homemade bomb planted outside a southern Philippine airport explod Friday, killing a soldier and wounding another, a spokesman for the military said.

Army Col Fredesvindo Covarrubias said the bomb concealed inside a cardboard receptacle exploded around 1:15 p.m. while being detonated by way of military and police bomb experts

He said a secondary bomb was also discovered through military bomb experts nearby. The secondary bomb did not explode, he said.

Covarrubias said civilians informed the military about the bomb after they saw electrical wires protruding from the box

''Our numbers are on red alert in Jolo and police and military authorities have tightened security in the island,'' he said.

No cluster or individual had immediately claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion.

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