10 wounded in bombing on Philippines' hostage island - Summary
Posted : Wed, 13 May 2009 08
45 GMT
Zamboanga City, Philippines - Ten people were wounded Wednesday in a bombing allegedly targeting a provincial governor in the southern Philippines, a regional police chief said. Chief Superintendent Bensali Jarabani said the explosion occurred a few metres from the capitol building in Sulu province on Jolo island, 1,000 kilometres south of Manila.
Jarabani said the explosion hit the convoy of vehicles of Sulu Governor Abdusakur Tan, who was on his way home in downtown Jolo.
Five police officers and three soldiers who were Tan's security escorts and two civilians were injured in the blast.
Investigators said the attack was apparently aimed at assassinating Tan, who escaped the bombing unhurt.
Bomb experts were still determining the make of the bomb, which was placed on a parked motorcycle.
Thousands of government forces are conducting operations on Jolo to rescue Eugenio Vagni, a 62-year-old International Committee of the Red Cross employee held captive by Muslim Abu Sayyaf rebels.
Vagni was abducted January 15 along with fellow Red Cross workers Andreas Notter of Switzerland and Mary Jean Lacaba of the Philippines.
Notter and Lacaba have been released by the guerrillas, and only Vagni, who is reportedly suffering from a hernia injury, remained in captivity.
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In putine cuvinte, Eugenio este inca in captivitate, sint schimburi de focuri pentru a-l salva, au murit 10 politisti/ ofiteri din trupele de ordine care incercau sa-l salveze, in urma unui bombardament provocat de o motocicleta parcata, care se vede ca avea explozibil.
Ieri au murit alti 4 politisti/ ofiteri.
Tare mi-e teama acuma, ca dupa atitia morti, si atitea schimburi de focuri si bombardamente si explozii, nu stiu daca Eugenio mai are vre-o sansa de a scapa din mainile cotropitorilor. Sigur, batalia se va duce pina la capat, insa pentru el...