Grenade blast kills 3, injures 11 in southern Philippines

Suspected communist guerrillas launched a series of attacks Thursday in the southern Philippines, lobbing a grenade that killed three people and raiding a police station and a gold mining company, officials said. The pre-dawn grenade blast, which also injured 11 people, ripped through the Park n Go bakeshop in Compostela Valley's Nabunturan township, where communist rebels, extortion gangs and other armed groups operate. In the same province's gold-mining township of Monkayo, communist New People's Army guerrillas harassed a mining company, prompting an hour-long clash that killed a rebel and wounded two policemen, said Senior Inspector Nathaniel Villagomeza, the town's police chief. Several other guerrillas were injured, Villagomeza said. A 30-man team of NPA guerrillas also launched an attack Thursday on a police station in... [read full story]