Manila: A Filipino militant is suspected of carrying out an apparent suicide bombing last week in the southern Philippines, an army general said, a grim first for the insurgency-plagued nation.
Philippine targets have been struck in the past in rare instances of suicide attacks, but this would be the first believed to have been carried out by a Filipino.
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