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Blast in southern Philippines kills 2 -police
10 Jan 2007 10:49:40 GMT
Source: Reuters

MANILA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - An explosion outside a market in the southern Philippine city of General Santos killed two people on Wednesday, police said.

The blast, at 1000 GMT, came as the country is on high alert ahead of a summit of 16 Asian leaders in the central island of Cebu on Jan. 13-15.
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Indonesian rescue workers spray water into the wreckage of a plane at Yogyakarta airport on March 7, 2007. The jet from Indonesia's state carrier Garuda crashed and burst into flames on landing on Wedesday morning, an airline spokesman said. Garuda Airlines said on Wednesday that 21 passengers and one crew member died in the crash of one of its planes in Yogyakarta, contradicting a government official who gave a figure of 49 deaths earlier.