At Least 10 Dead in Philippine Blast

World | January 4, 2004, Sunday // 00:00

At least 10 people were killed and 40 were wounded when a bomb tore through a packed sports hall staging a basketball game Sunday in the southern Philippines, officials and police said. The bomb exploded inside the crowded gymnasium in the town of Parang, Maguindanao province and apparently was aimed at killing the town mayor, Vivencio Bataga, police said.

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