Eight killed in bombing at Philippines mall

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MANILA (AFP) — A huge bomb ripped through a shopping mall in the Philippine capital's financial district Friday, killing eight people and injuring 99, police and rescue workers said.

Panicked shoppers ran out of the Glorietta mall in the Makati district of Manila as smoke billowed out of the building shortly after noon.

Manila police chief Geary Barias said the blast killed eight people, all Filipinos, and wounded at least 99 others, including two South Koreans and a Chinese citizen. Twenty-one of the wounded have been sent home from hospital.

Bomb debris carpeted a 200-square-metre (2,100-square-foot) area, Barias said.

Police experts declared the building free of any more explosives early evening, allowing them to shift their work to investigating...