By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 09:54pm (Mla time) 01/10/2007
MANILA -- (UPDATE) An improvise bomb exploded in front of a police outpost in Kidapawan City, leaving two people wounded, a military official said, the second explosion to rock the southern Philippines on Wednesday.
The blasts came as leaders from 16 countries were preparing for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and East Asian summits in the central Philippine city of Cebu.
Colonel Julieto Ando, spokesman of the Army's 6th Infantry Division said a teenager, identified as Boy Rivas, and an elderly male were hurt.
Rivas' arm was amputated while being treated at a nearby hospital, Ando said in a phone interview.
Earlier, improvised bomb went off around in front of a busy lottery ticket store in General Santos City, killing at least five people and wounding 20 others.
Philippine National Police chief Oscar Calderon, who is in Cebu to oversee security for the summit, said earlier Wednesday that militants may try to embarrass the government, a staunch US ally in counterterrorism, by staging attacks during the summits.
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