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Blast rocks crowded night market, 14 dead
Philippines police Sunday were searching for three people wanted for questioning over the bombing of a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown blamed on an Islamic militant group.
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Philippine police investigators check bodies at a blast site at a night market that has left at least several people dead and wounded others in southern Davao city, Philippines late Friday Sept. 2, 2016. Lorenzana himself is not certain when it will be released.
Muammar Askali, also known as “Abu Ramie”, the group’s spokesman, told the TV network ABS-CBN it was a “call for unity to all mujahideen in the country”.
Police and military promised to act in accordance with his “state of lawlessness”, although there was some confusion about what that actually entailed.
Duterte made his name in politics as the mayor of Davao City.
Medialdea was speaking of the recent escape of members of the local terrorist Maute group from a Lanao del Sur prison, the beheading of Abu Sayyaf hostages, and the deadly explosion in Davao City last Friday.
She said the USA government could not comment on the state of lawlessness declared by President Duterte in response to the Davao blast.
Through the proclamation, Duterte ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to ensure two things.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s “Kill List” – regarded as one of the most accurate records of the killings of suspected drug dealers by police and vigilantes – has recorded 832 deaths since Duterte assumed office June 30.
Mr Duterte’s spokesman, Ernesto Abella, warned the public to be vigilant and avoid crowds.
The Philippines-based Islamist militant group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility for the attack, just a day after it threatened “soldiers of Duterte” with a frontal attack.
“We know that this is not a fascist state”.
Duterte cancelled a trip to Brunei on Saturday in what would have been his first overseas visit as president.
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Duterte was reacting to a question that U.S. President Barack Obama might raise the issue of alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and related summits this week in Vientiane, Laos.