Van explosion kills 10 at checkpoint in Philippine south

  31 July 2018    Read: 1544
Van explosion kills 10 at checkpoint in Philippine south

An explosion inside a van killed at least 10 people at a military checkpoint in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, in what officials said may have been a bombing by militants with ties to the Islamic State group, AzVision.az reports quoting Reuters.

The blast occurred moments after troops stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver, according to an official on the island of Basilan and a military incident report.

Basilan is a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf group, which is notorious for kidnapping and banditry, and home of the former “emir” of Islamic State in Southeast Asia, who was killed last year.


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