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1 41 Bomb Series of bombings blamed on anti-Marcos dissidents. [5] 3 October 1980 Tagum, Davao del Norte: 4 68 Grenade Two suspected Muslim rebels riding in a jeep hurled grenades into a market. [6] 19 April 1981 Davao City: 17 150+ Grenade: A grenade was hurled during Easter Sunday mass at San Pedro Cathedral. [7]
Bojinka plot. The Bojinka plot ( Arabic: بوجينكا; Tagalog: Oplan Bojinka) was a large-scale, three-phase terrorist attack planned by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for January 1995. They planned to assassinate Pope John Paul II; blow up 11 airliners in flight from Asia to the United States, with the goal of killing approximately ...
On 14 February 2005, bombs exploded almost simultaneously at a bus terminal in Davao and outside the Gaisano Mall in General Santos. [1] [2] Half an hour later, at about 7:30 p.m., a third bomb exploded on a bus in the Makati section of Manila, under the Ayala station of the elevated Manila Metro Rail Transit System and near Glorietta and the InterContinental Hotel, where President Arroyo and ...
The episode arose when Mohamed reassembled the parts of a digital clock in an 8-inch (20 cm) [1] pencil container and brought it to school to show his teachers. His English teacher thought the device resembled a bomb, confiscated it, and reported him to the principal. The local police were called, and they questioned him for an hour and a half.
Ateneo de Manila shooting. / 14.64139°N 121.07556°E / 14.64139; 121.07556. On July 24, 2022, a mass shooting took place at the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, leaving three people dead and three others injured, including the assailant. [ 5][ 4][ 7][ 8] The attacker, identified as Chao-Tiao Yumol ...
292. Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. [ 1]
The 2002 Zamboanga bombings were a series of attacks perpetrated on the October 2, 17 and 21, 2002, around the southern Philippine port of Zamboanga City, Mindanao island. [ 1] Eleven people died and over 180 others were wounded in the four bomb attacks allegedly perpetrated by Islamic extremists with connections to the Abu Sayyaf insurgent ...
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics ...