Probe on S. Lankan terrorists

Good dog: A security officer and his dog inspecting travellers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. — Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network

MANILA: Philippine security officials said yesterday they were checking reports that at least two Sri Lankans had slipped into the country to train local militants on bomb-making, even as one of them claimed a family feud had led to false accusations against her.

Rommel Banlaoi, head of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, told The Sunday Times that one of the Sri Lankans, Victoria Sophia Sto Domingo, had met agents from the National Bureau of Investigation “to deny everything”.