New Year bomber kills nine

Nine people were killed in a New Year’s Eve grenade attack in the southern Philippines, including a 14-year-old.

At least 32 others, most of them New Year’s revellers, were injured when an unidentified man tossed a grenade at a crowded roadside stall selling firecrackers in the city of Tacurong in Sultan Kudarat province on southern Mindanao island.