A crude bomb exploded on Saturday in the covering of a Roman Catholic Church at a police force base on a Muslim-dominated southern island in the Philippines wounding six people, an army spokesman said.
The Catholic priest celebrating the early morning Christmas mass was among those wounded, said military presenter Lieutenant-Colonel Randolf Cabangbang.said about 100 people were at the service in the main police base on the island of Jolo, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, a small Islamist militant group with ties to al Qaeda."We've placed our troops on alert to check similar attacks on churches, shopping malls, parks and transport terminals," Cabangbang said.
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