(MENAFN- Gulf Times) Security was stepped up in the southern Philippines yesterday after a suspected car bomb killed two people and wounded 54, authorities said.
The blast occurred Friday outside a bus terminal and a karaoke bar in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila.
Chief Superintendent Agrimero Cruz Junior, a regional police director, said he had ordered more random checkpoints and deployed more officers on patrol.Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco said she suspects that the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebel group was behind the attack.
She said the city jail has 52 high-risk inmates, mostly Abu Sayyaf militants, among 1,500 prisoners.
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