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2002 Zamboanga City bombings

Attacks in the Philippines

Field	Value
title	2002 Zamboanga City bombings
location	Four separate locations in Zamboanga City
target	Two department stores, Fort Pillar shrine and a karaoke bar/restaurant opposite a military base.
date	First bombing:
Second bombing:
Third bombing:
fatalities	at least 11
injuries	at least 180
perps	unknown (MILF, Abu Sayyaf, and Jemaah Islamiyah suspected)

Second bombing: Third bombing:

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. 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 group.

Attacks

October 2

A bomb blast in front of a Malagutay district karaoke bar near a military arms depot{{cite news | access-date = March 22, 2010}} in Zamboanga City killed an American Green Beret commando and three Filipino civilians. At least 25 other people, one of them another American trooper, were wounded in the blast.{{cite news | access-date = March 22, 2010 | archive-date = November 13, 2002 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20021113152915/http://www.newsflash.org/2002/09/hl/hl016645.htm | url-status = dead

October 20

Two TNT bombs exploded around noon inside a shopping centre in the commercial district of Zamboanga City, when the mall was most busy, killing at least seven and wounding about 150 people.{{cite news | access-date = March 23, 2010}} Two department stores were devastated in the attack. The first blast occurred at 11:30 a.m. at the Shop-o-Rama department store and was followed a half hour later by a second explosion at the adjacent Shoppers Central store. Police Chief Mario Yanga said the bombs were deposited at counters where shoppers leave packages as they enter.{{cite news | access-date = March 23, 2010}} The explosions occurred as ceremonies were being held in the city to hand over command of the military's Southern Command from Lt. Gen. Ernesto Carolina to Lt. Gen. Narciso Abaya.{{cite news | access-date = March 23, 2010}} Following the blasts, Zamboanga police bomb squads blew up five suspicious packages, however further examination found they contained no explosives.

October 21

A Philippine Marine guarding the church was killed and 18 others wounded after a bomb, placed in bag left at a candle store, exploded at Fort Pilar, a Catholic shrine in Zamboanga City. | access-date = March 23, 2010

Perpetrators

Hours before the October 21 blast, police in Manila captured a man they said was a senior member of the Muslim extremist group, Abu Sayyaf, suspected of staging the earlier blasts. Police arrested five more suspects on the 22nd. On November 15, Abdulmukim Edris, who had a million peso bounty on his head, was arrested in Pasay after the issuing of 11 warrants of arrest by the regional trial court in Isabela, Basilan for a string of pending criminal cases, including murder and kidnapping for ransom. Edris was tagged as the mastermind in the October 17 bombings.

References

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