Explosion reported in Lamitan City

ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police reported an explosion late Friday in Lamitan City in restive Muslim autonomous region in southern Philippines.

Police said the explosion occurred at a multi cab parked in front of the Evangelical Church in Maligaya village. The area was immediately cordoned off and police said no casualties were reported from the blast.

No other details were made available by the police on the explosion. Lamitan has been bombed many times in the past by the Abu Sayyaf, which is fighting for Islamic caliphate in southern Philippines.

Just last month, an improvised explosive went off at the Dangkalan Elementary School there, although there had been no casualties in the bombing.

An improvised explosive was also detonated at the port area in January and the attack damaged a water tank and windows of the terminal building.

And in October last year, a powerful Abu Sayyaf bomb – made from ammonium nitrate and fuel oil and packed with iron nails, and rigged to a blasting cap and cell phone - was also discovered along Rizal Avenue in downtown Lamitan.

Prior to that, an improvised bomb planted outside the police headquarters in Lamitan City also exploded, although no was injured or killed in the attack blamed to the Abu Sayyaf which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq of Iraq and Syria. (With a report from Ely Dumaboc)

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