30 Dec 2000

Rizal Day Bombings

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THE horror brought by the bombing of a packed commuter trains in Manila on December 30, 2000, by a group of renegade Islamic extremist continues to haunt the police.

Some 20 people died and scores were seriously injured in the attacks blamed on the Jemaah Islamiah, a pan-regional group linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda.

Metro Manila Police chief, Director Reynaldo Varilla, on Saturday admitted that they have yet to get over the stigma brought by one of the deadliest terror attacks in the country’s capital.

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