Blast rocks Philippine justice ministry hours before Marcos’s state address
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MANILA, July 27 — A homemade bomb detonated near the entrance of the Philippine justice ministry early on Monday, officials said, hours before a suspected unexploded device was...
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The explosion just after midnight, which resulted in no casualties, and the discovery of the second suspected bomb came hours before Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was due to give an annual State of the Nation address.
National police chief Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr told reporters on Monday there was a “big possibility or probability that the two (incidents) are related”.
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- Jul 27, 2026
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