MANILA: A car exploded Tuesday in an upscale district of the Philippine capital Manila, killing one person, police said. ‘We have a report that one person was killed in the car blast,’ police spokesman Chief Superintendent Leonardo Espina said, adding the cause of the explosion near a high-end shopping mall was not immediately clear.
The car had just entered the basement car park of a plush high-rise apartment in Taguig district when it blew up, police and witnesses said.
‘There was one man in the driver seat of the car...he was struggling to get out, the fire was in the front of the car,’ said 29-year-old Diana Luna, who was at a coffee bar across the street when the explosion occurred.
Espina said police investigators have been dispatched to the area to determine the cause of the explosion.
He said initial investigations revealed the victim was a businessman who owned one of the shops at the mall opposite the building.
The victim ‘does not appear to be a suicide bomber,’ Espina said, adding investigators were checking all angles.
Islamic Abu Sayyaf militants with links to al-Qaeda operate out of the southern Philippines, and have been known to carry out urban attacks in the past.
In February 2005, the group was blamed a Manila bus bombing that killed three and wounded nearly 100.
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