By DPA
Manila : Three children were killed in a grenade blast triggered by a quarrel over a cockfight in a southern Philippine city, a police report said Sunday.
Six other people were wounded in the explosion late Saturday outside a cockfighting arena in Iligan City, 810 km south of Manila, the report said.
Investigators said the suspect, who has been arrested, hurled the grenade at a group of people during an argument over the results of an earlier cockfight match.
The slain children – aged 4, 11 and 15 – were playing near the group of men when the grenade blast occurred.