Bomb blast at Philippine shopping centre kills two and wounds dozen of others

Suspected Muslim militants remotely detonated a bomb near the entrance of a shopping centre in the southern Philippines on Monday as people were last-minute shopping ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations, killing at least two and wounding nearly 30, officials said.
The bomb went off near the baggage counter at the entrance of the South Seas mall in Cotabato city, wounding shoppers, vendors and commuters. Authorities recovered another unexploded bomb nearby as government forces imposed a…