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Manila: A homemade bomb exploded outside an air force base in the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 19 others in a possible attack by Al Qaida-linked militants, police said.
The cell phone-detonated bomb was apparently concealed in one of several bags of civilian commuters waiting to hitch a ride on an air force C-130 cargo plane outside Edwin Andrews Air Base in Zamboanga city, a police official said.
A man and a woman, both waiting to get on the plane, were killed in the blast and 19 others were wounded, he said.
No one had claimed responsibility for the blast, which also damaged three parked cars and a lawmaker's office in a building across the street from the base.
Most of the wounded were civilian relatives of soldiers waiting to get a free ride on the Manila-bound C-130. Two of the lawmaker's employees were wounded in the blast.
Investigators were looking at the possibility that Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack.
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