Death toll from Manila bomb blast rises to 11

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

MANILA (AFP) — The toll from a deadly bomb blast in a Manila shopping mall has risen to 11 after another body was found in rubble at the ravaged building and an injured man died in hospital, officials said Sunday.

A 23 year-old woman was found buried in the basement of the Glorietta shopping mall in Manila's financial district of Makati late Saturday, said councillor Jun-jun Binay who is overseeing the recovery efforts.

And before dawn Sunday, a 24-year-old man injured in the explosion died in a Makati hospital from multiple blast wounds, hospital officials said.

Binay said rescuers were still searching the site after relatives of three more people reported them being at the mall during the explosion but that they had yet to return home.

"We are...

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