Philippines hunts for bombers

Sultan Kudarat : Philippine authorities were hunting yesterday two men believed to have planted the explosives that killed two people, including a young girl, at a festival in the nation’s south. The blast late Tuesday in the town of Isulan, which wounded 35 others, is the second deadly bombing in less than in a month in the region.

A man left the improvised bomb in a bag near a grocery store as crowds gathered to celebrate the town’s founding anniversary but he and an accomplice escaped, the military said. “One (man) did the emplacement while the other one (drove) the getaway motorcycle,” Brigadier General Cirilito Sobejana told AFP, adding a manhunt was underway.