DON'T GET ON THE BUS

When your bus driver's last name is "danger," you know the terrorists have been watching too many old Keanu Reeves movies. This is just pure and utter terror tactics. The fact that no group's claimed it actually suggests a misdirection strategy our formulaic military and police minds commonly employ.

That certainly pus a damper on my bus rides.

EDSA bus bombing: 4 dead

Bomb under seat of bus driven by Maximo Peligro

MANILA, Philippines—“Who is responsible? At this point all we can say is speculation,” President Benigno Aquino III said Tuesday night as he also disclosed that all intelligence agencies were in the process of identifying those behind the EDSA bombing that killed four, two instantly, and injured 14 others.


The bomb placed under the seat in the middle of a passenger bus driven by a man ironically named Maximo Peligro went off just before 2 p.m. on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) near the north gate of the upscale Forbes Park subdivision in Makati City.


The blast blew a huge hole on the right side of the northbound Newman Goldliner plying the Baclaran-SM Fairview route.


Makati Mayor Junjun Binay said the explosion was so powerful that it punched a hole in a nearby concrete fence.


“It appears that it was a big bomb that exploded but we’re still determining what kind of bomb,” said the Makati police chief, Senior Supt. Froilan Bonifacio.


The explosion shattered the windows of the air-conditioned bus (Plate No. TXJ-710), which was approaching the loading bay on EDSA and Metro Rail Transit station on Gil Puyat (formerly Buendia) Avenue.


Police said the sixth row on the right side of the bus sustained massive damage...

EDSA bus bombing: 4 dead - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos