Explosion at Glorietta?

[mcbry]

kawawa naman mga inocente na nadamay sa bombing na to. tsk tsk tsk

[mayana]

From Agence France-Presse

Topic Multimedia (5/8984)
Philippines-blast, 6thlead October 19, 2007 4:11:43 PM [Load]
Four killed in bombing at Philippines mall =(PICTURE)=

ATTENTION - ADDS police on alert ///


MANILA, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - A bomb ripped through a shopping mall in the Philippines capital's financial district Friday, killing four people, police and rescue workers said.
Panicked shoppers ran out of the Glorietta mall in the Makati district of Manila as smoke billowed out of the building.
A member of the rescue teams inside the mall told AFP four people have been confirmed dead. Local television said at least 45 other people were injured.
Police initially blamed the noon time blast on a gas leak at a restaurant inside the shopping centre.
However national police chief Avelino Razon said: "From our assessment this was not, as initially reported, an LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) leak.
"This was a bomb. But beyond that we can't say anything else yet because we are still investigating. What I can say is it was not LPG that caused this."
Local media said the scale and type of the damage tended to rule out a mere fuel tank explosion.
Witnesses said part of a ceiling collapsed while a concrete wall was blown out. ABS-CBN television reported seeing a huge crater on the concrete floor on the ground floor.
Two cars and two delivery vans were buried under wooden planks and concrete debris outside the mall.
"It was so powerful," clothing store clerk Jeric Balendes told AFP on the scene, as rescuers applied first aid on his cuts and bruises.
"The roof just collapsed on us. I could hear my three co-workers screaming. I got out through a small hole. I don't know if they got out."
Police stepped up security across the Manila area, a sprawling city of 12 million people.
Bomb squad teams sifted through the debris looking for clues, while extra police were drafted in to divert traffic and seal off the surrounding area -- one of the busiest shopping districts of Manila.
Makati City councilor JunJun Binay said the explosion left an eight-metre (26-foot) wide crater on the ground floor and blew a hole through the roof on the second floor.
"From what I have seen it was a significant explosion and that most of the dead and injured were all employees," he said.
The bodies of three of the dead lay covered in blankets on the floor of the adjacent car park, being used as an emergency medical assessment area.
"There was a sudden explosion," said Christine Calope, one of the injured. "I don't know if it was inside or outside the mall."
Witnesses said the blast occurred in a section of the mall with clusters of stores selling baby clothes and toys.
Regional police chief Geary Barias said police had not received any threats about an attack.
Police did not immediately name likely suspects for the attack, but Islamic militants were blamed for a bomb on a bus near the Glorietta mall that killed four people in February 2005.
Militants also firebombed a ferry on Manila Bay the previous year, killing more than 100 people in the country's worst terrorist attack.
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[badsekktor]

lagi pa naman ako dyan kapag nagagawi ako makati...

[praktikal]

according sa kasama ko, nag warn daw ang ASG dati na wait lang nila matapos ang Ramadan at magpaparamdam sila...hmmm. buti tanghali at maliwanag.

Naalala ko tuloy ang Asteroid...

[ghosthunter]

Was there any fire triggered by the explosion? usually kapag lpg eh may fire na kasunod.... mukhang malaki scope ng blast ah! hindi ba centralized distribution ng lpg ng glorietta?

not really... there was another LPG explosion in a restaurant nearby our office and it just destroyed the restaurant with no fire afterwards.

[russpogi]

Eto, bagong update na naman:
(8th UPDATE) Eight killed, 70 hurt in Makati mall blast

[SIZE=2]Eight people were killed while at least 70 others were injured after an explosion ripped through a mall in Makati City Friday afternoon.

In a press conference held by the Ayala Land management and the police, authorities said 45 injured people have been rushed to Makati Medical Center while 25 were brought to Ospital ng Makati....[/SIZE]

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topoftheh...?StoryId=96381

[russpogi]

I was supposed to go there pa naman! Sana walang Tsikoteer, or mahal sa buhay natin ang nasaktan o namatay!

[mayana]

8 na ang patay; 70 ang injured. Ang sad naman.

[cutedoc]

indi daw galing sa LPG... tsk tsk tsk will this be govt manipulation for martial law? pakana kaya ni shortie... or the military?

[Paolo123]

tsk tsk tsk...

[falken]

R.I.P. to the fatalities, may those a$$holes behind this gruesome act be brought to justice swiftly.

[artpogi]

mabuti na lang di kami natuloy ni esmi kanina, malamang nandyan kami sa vicinity nyan kawawa naman yung mga nabiktima tsaka yung mga pamilya nila

[veilde_slick]

OMG! muntik na kmi ng family ko dun ah... was about to there sana after lunch. Mag check sana ng appliance and mag grocery... buti sa MOA kmi napunta... sobrang salamat talaga and theres always someone watching us...

Nung malaman namin yung news we immediately went home...

[oldblue]

O anong masama dun? wag mo akong igaya sayong puro copy-paste nasa isip mo lang tcash, alam mo ikaw ang nagpapasama sa imahe ng tsikot.com hindi mo ba alam na buwisit na buwisit ng mga miyembro sayo

no comment. teka't tinatawag na ako ng kapatid ko si invisible girl ... GTG .. blamer este flamer

[Flagg]

From Agence France-Presse
...Witnesses said the blast occurred in a section of the mall with clusters of stores selling baby clothes and toys...

I recognized the area at once. Whoever these animals are, they are now attacking our children.

There is no one who can help us but ourselves.

We don't even need to know who committed this act. I believe it is high time that we become a much more intolerant society as the reality of our situation demands it.

I do not advocate any sort of discrimination. Merely for peaceful people like us to be more wary and committed to action, kahit mag-mukha tayong tanga.

For example, several times, I've seen people deliberately ignore suspicious looking bags left in public areas. Not once did anyone but myself act. Ang dami nakapansin who just walked away. Palagi ako nalang nakakakuha ng masamang tingin from security kasi I demand that they investigate these bags, which fortunately were mostly just trash, and once, an actual lost & found.

I believe that the simple act of being more alert to suspicious items and people would eliminate this threat. Alam mo na, parang daga mga yan e, pag nakaamoy na nagbabantay ang tao, di magpapakita.

[theveed]

Naisip ko din yun, yung dito sa SG kasi earlier this week LPG talaga, in 5-10 mins ubos ang buong structure sa fire...

If LPG din yan, baket walang fire damage?

SG fire photos
http://clubsnap.com/forums/showthread.php?t=319337

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...2/DSC00158.jpg
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../DSC001731.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/harrynkl/image/87397195.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/harrynkl/image/87397193.jpg

All in less than 15mins

[dbuzz]

Eto, bagong update na naman:
(8th UPDATE) Eight killed, 70 hurt in Makati mall blast



http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topoftheh...?StoryId=96381

yap.. napadaan ako doon mga 3:30PM trfic nga at ang daming fire trucks and ambulances around ground zero. yun nga rin ang nagather kong ifo doon 8dead, 70 injured and counting. bomb squad report: bomb explosion.
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[ghosthunter]

Thats one powerful explosion. Enough to rip-off the roof from a L300 FB and push back vehicles parked in the area of the explosion.

[oldblue]

I recognized the area at once. Whoever these animals are, they are now attacking our children.

There is no one who can help us but ourselves.

We don't even need to know who committed this act. I believe it is high time that we become a much more intolerant society as the reality of our situation demands it.

I do not advocate any sort of discrimination. Merely for peaceful people like us to be more wary and committed to action, kahit mag-mukha tayong tanga.

For example, several times, I've seen people deliberately ignore suspicious looking bags left in public areas. Not once did anyone but myself act. Ang dami nakapansin who just walked away. Palagi ako nalang nakakakuha ng masamang tingin from security kasi I demand that they investigate these bags, which fortunately were mostly just trash, and once, an actual lost & found.

I believe that the simple act of being more alert to suspicious items and people would eliminate this threat. Alam mo na, parang daga mga yan e, pag nakaamoy na nagbabantay ang tao, di magpapakita.

yes i believe yan nga yun area ng baby clothes. but I dont believe they're attacking the children.

way way back in the bomb scare days of 2k1, 2k2, I lined up in Megamall entrance ... sobrang haba ang linya bec. of bomb checks and detection. and so naisip ko, if the purpose of bombers is to bomb a lot of people. sa entrance pa lang makakarami na siya and there's no security pa.

and this is what happened today. even if sobrang secure and well versed na ang mga sikyu, police, bomb sniffing dogs natin sa entrance. they can still trigger it outside, oklahoma style.

and this is the scariest part, this is random. no planning, no planting. you can be hit anywhere lalo na kung malapit ka sa entrance.

[archangel_1911]

The blast is bad news to us. They might declare Martial Law or other similar acts for this. Some opposition officials say that this was done by the administration to divert attention.( I just hope this is not true. Imagine using lives in this tactics?)
A Lady tsikoteer friend said that the explosion was heard from her place in Quezon City, thats how loud the explosion is.