By SPA
Manila, Philippines : An improvised bomb exploded Monday in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato, wounding at least three people including a two-year-old boy.
The bomb _ made from an 81 mm mortar with a cell phone triggering device hidden in a sack with sand and partly buried on the ground _ exploded on a sidewalk fronting a barber shop in downtown Cotabato, said police Senior Inspector Samson Obatay.
«We are not pointing to any group yet but this looks like a terrorist attack,» Obatay, head of the city’s police mobile group, told The Associated Press.