MANILA, Jan. 28 Kyodo (EDS: UPDAT...

MANILA, Jan. 28 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH HIGHER CASUALTY TOLL)

Twenty race including two policeman were injured after a bomb explod in Kidapawan City in the southern Philippines upon Tuesday, police said.

The blast occurr around 1:10 pm in impudence of a building housing several establishments in the city, located in North Cotabato Province in central Mindanao.

individual of the wounded policemen squandered his hand after approaching the case that contained the bomb. The others, who were mainly civilians, were wounded from splinters, the police said.

Eight folks died in the same city in October 2002 when alleged extortionists bombed a bus station there.

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