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To: paret who wrote (563)	3/4/2003 2:23:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 808

19 killed in Philippines airport bomb Some 150 injured; dead include U.S. missionary Image: Attack victim A child injured in the Davao airport bombing is rushed to hospital Tuesday. NBC NEWS AND NEWS SERVICES MANILA, Philippines, March 4 — A powerful bomb ripped through the outside waiting area of an airport in the southern Philippines, killing at least 19 people and injuring some 150 others on Tuesday. With many of the injured in serious condition, officials feared the death toll could rise. Officials said around 150 people had been wounded, at least 20 of them seriously. Many of those in hospital had shrapnel wounds, they said. Two other explosions were reported in the area on Tuesday. Local officials told NBC that one person was killed and at least two wounded in Tagum, which is northwest of Davao. U.S. Philippines operation in limbo ‘HUNT DOWN BOMBERS’ President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said police detained “several men” in connection with the bombing in Davao, the Philippines’ second-largest city. Arroyo condemned the attack as a “brazen act of terrorism which will not go unpunished,” and said she ordered police and the military “to hunt down the bombers and their accomplices.” National Police Deputy Chief Edgar Aglipay said the explosion was caused by a bomb hidden inside a backpack. Suspicion immediately fell on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, which has been fighting for a separate Muslim homeland for three decades. A spokesman for the front denied responsibility. Davao, a gateway to Mindanao, had largely escaped the separatist violence that has plagued the region for decades. A shelter outside the arrival terminal of the international airport in the southern Philippine city of Davao lies in ruins on Tuesday. Image: Destroyed Airport Shelter DETAILS ON VICTIMS Tuesday’s explosion occurred as scores of people waited under an outdoor shelter for arriving passengers. South Philippines map “It was a very, very loud explosion,” Terry Labado, an airport official said. “I saw bodies flying.” “We rushed out of the building to see where the explosion happened,” she said. “We saw many dead.” The dead included a boy, a girl, 10 men and seven women, officials said. One of the dead was William Hyde, an American missionary from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Southern Baptist Convention confirmed that Hyde, 59, died in surgery from severe head and leg injuries. Hyde was meeting other Southern Baptist missionaries at the airport as they returned from a family trip. Three members of one of those families were injured. Barbara Stevens, 33, and her 10-month-old son Nathan, were taken to Davao Doctors Hospital. Stevens’ daughter Sarah was injured but released. Her husband escaped injuries. “I just heard it explode to my side,” Stevens said from the hospital. “I was carrying my infant son so I grabbed my daugne rhter and picked her up and ran away. I was afraid there could be more bombs.” msnbc.com