At least two people were killed and 28 were wounded when two crude bombs ripped through two shopping malls in the southern Philippines on Thursday, said an army commander.
The blasts occurred 5 minutes apart in downtown Iligan City on the restive southern island of Mindanao as people were doing their Christmas shopping, Colonel Nicanor Dolojan, a brigade commander in Lanao provinces, told reporters.
Dolojan said they suspected renegade members of the country's largest Muslim rebel group, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), were behind the attack.
Dolojan said they could identify the men who were behind the attack after reviewing videotapes of close circuit cameras that were installed at the shopping mall entrances.
"The tapes showed two men wearing scarves leaving behind a package," Dolojan said, adding the explosives went off minutes after the two men were seen leaving in a hurry.
Five people were wounded in two blasts on Dec. 4 in another part of Mindanao, which army officials blamed on rogue Muslim rebels fighting a long-running insurgency in the south.
There have been at least three bomb attacks on bus terminals in the south since July as violence escalated after Manila and the MILF failed to sign a territory deal in August.
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