Politics as usual in Manila after Congress blast


  • World
  • Wednesday, 14 Nov 2007

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine politicians went back to work on Wednesday after a bomb attack on Congress killed three people and wounded 10 in the suspected assassination of a Muslim lawmaker. 

Members of the lower house, where Tuesday night's explosion tore the roof off a lobby, were discussing an impeachment complaint against President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo while in the Senate, over an hour's drive southwest of the lower house, senators opened an inquiry into allegations of cash handouts to the president's allies. 

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