MANILA, Oct 26 Kyodo (EDS: ADDING...

MANILA, Oct 26 Kyodo

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A homemade bomb explod Friday night inside a videoke bar in a small village in the northern Philippines, killing at least sum of two units people and wounding eight others, police said Saturday.

Police Insp. Noel Basi said the explosion occurr around 8 pm inside the bar in Lieones village, Tubao town, in La Union Province, about 210 kilometers north of Manila.

''It was a consequence of a personal quarrel. It has nothing to do with the terror attacks in Zamboanga City (in the southern Philippines) and Manila,'' Basi said in a telephone interview, quashing rumors the blast could have been a terror attack.

He said the same suspect has been arrested and is being investigated, adding the suspect could have been the undivided who lobbed the crude explosive.

Another bomb explod around 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the men's lavatory at a local sect in Nalsian village, Calasiao in northern Philippine Pangasinan Province, injuring the same person, police said.

Manila and Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines have been stoneed by a spate of bomb attacks in newly come weeks that have killed a number of the community including a U.S. soldier based in Zamboanga.

No cluster has claimed responsibility for the attacks, still the military and police have blamed the blasts onward the Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim separatist cluster linked to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

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