Event
In what would be the single deadliest bombing incident in Mindanao
25 Feb 2000 · 8.15° N, 123.84° E
What the records say
- When
- 25 Feb 2000
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 8.15° N, 123.84° E
Placed at the town named in the title of the event it links, Ozamiz.
Summary
In what would be the single deadliest bombing incident in Mindanao, an explosion, allegedly by the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), occur inside two passenger buses aboard a ferry boat Our Lady of Mediatrix in Ozamiz City, killing at least 45 people and injuring more than 100. Bombings also occur in a bus in Rizal, Zamboanga del Norte and, on February 27, at a radio station in Cotabato City, all are also blamed on the MILF.
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