Boy killed in Phillippines bus station blast

A five-year-old boy was killed and dozens of people wounded today wounded when a powerful bomb ripped through a teeming bus terminal in the Philippines.

The improvised explosive device was believed to have been left in a cluster of stalls near the main gate at the Weena Bus Terminal in Cotabato city, where many passengers were waiting to board buses, said Supt. Jomar Yap, police spokesman for the central Mindanao region.