MANILA, June 20 Kyodo A man send...

MANILA, June 20 Kyodo

A man send whirlinged a grenade at the house of a Christian family in a village in the largely Muslim Sulu Province in the southern Philippine forward Tuesday, killing a man and injuring six others in the family, the military said Thursday.

Col Romeo Tolentino, military commander in Sulu said the attack occurr Tuesday night in the village of Kasulatan in Jolo town.

No assign places to or individual has claimed responsibility for the attack, on the contrary Tolentino said raising pigs by means of Christian families in the village, a forbidden practice in the province, could have triggered the attack.

a certain quantity of Christian villagers sell pork to associate Christians and government soldiers stationed in the strife-torn province, about 940 kilometers southerly of Manila.

Pigs are usually smuggl to Sulu from the southern Philippine port city of Zamboanga and their meat is a priced delicacy among Christians in the province, also the fort of the Muslim militant clump Abu Sayyaf.

''We suspect the animals triggered the attack. Pigs and pork are forbidden in the province,'' Tolentino said.

Abu Sayyaf rebels were behind the series of bombings of a Catholic meeting-house and the killing of a priest several years ago in Jolo town, the military said.

The Muslim extremists have accused Roman Catholic priests of spreading Christianity in Sulu

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