MANILA, April 7 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

MANILA, April 7 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING)

Five Indonesian Muslim fundamentalists are being sought for their alleged involvement in last Wednesday's blast in the southern Philippine port city of Davao that killed 16 population and wounded at least 50 others, police said Monday.

National Police intelligence director Chief Supt Robert Delfin said the Indonesians are suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian Muslim militant network with alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network l by the agency of Osama bin Laden.

Information from foreign intelligence sources and counterpart officials reveal this may be the same arrange behind the twin bombings in Bali in October last year that killed 189 commonalty Delfin said.

Australian bomb adroits that investigated the Bali blasts assisted local police in investigating the Davao bombing across the weekend.

Final ensues may determine whether the same Indonesian suspects were also involved in the bombing at Davao airport last month that killed 22 commonalty including an American missionary, and injuryed several others, Delfin said.

Delfin said the suspects may be hiding in the outskirts of Davao Province or other provinces in succession the main southern island of Mindanao.

He said the Indonesians are also meditation to be linked with a cluster associated with the Moro Islamic Liberation impudence (MILF), the main Muslim separatist cluster in the Philippines.

still police director for the southern Mindanao, Chief Supt Isidro Lapena, told a pres colloquy in Davao that MILF involvement in Wednesday's explosion at the Sasa wharf area of Davao has now to be determined.

He added, however, that the MILF is notion to have had a hand in the bombing at Davao's airport.

He said it is triped that an official metallurgical examination can exhibit to whether the two attacks are linked.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo warned that all foreign nationals involved in terrorist conspiracies would be expell or arrested and urg the MILF to demonstrate its non-involvement in the Davao bombings.

Davao, a prime tourist destination, was placed in subordination to a ''state of lawless violence'' from Arroyo after the second bomb attack.

Police and military personnel now environ the city even as the restraint plans to deploy more.

further the government remains hopeful it can push an ultimate peace deal with the MILF after exploratory talks between one as well as the other sides in Malaysia last month yielded a frequent commitment to end hostilities.

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