MANILA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A bomb blast near a fast-food restaurant in the southern Philippines wounded two people on Friday, police said.

Officials said a crude bomb fashioned out of mortar shells exploded near the restaurant in Cotabato City, one of the larger cities in the Mindanao region of the southern Philippines.

Three improvised bombs were placed in a box and left on a road outside a store, Regional Police Chief Superintendent German Doria told reporters. Only one went off.

"Before the explosion, we were receiving intelligence reports of a possible attack in the city," Doria said.

Last October, an improvised bomb near a shopping mall in downtown Cotabato City damaged property but there were no wounded.

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