12 wounded as car bomb explodes outside Zambo disco bar

From Rappler (Jan 23): 12 wounded as car bomb explodes outside Zambo disco bar

The victims have been brought to the Zamboanga Peninsula Medical Hospital


ANOTHER BLAST. File photo of the site of twin explosions that rocked Zamboanga City in November 2014. Photo by Richard Falcatan/Rappler

At least 12 are wounded after a car exploded at the parking lot of a disco bar in Zamboanga City Friday afternoon, January 23, the police and the military confirmed.

"An explosion occured at Fantasy Bar fronting the Guiwan Bus Terminal in Barangay Guiwan, Zamboanga City," according to a police situation report.

Details remain sketchy, but the bomb exploded in a red car, according to Captain Rowena Muyuela of the military's Zamboanga-based Western Mindanao Command.

The victims were brought to the Zamboanga Peninsula Medical Hospital, said Muyuela.

The military's Task Group Zamboanga is now in the area to investigate.

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