2 wounded in Cotabato grenade attack

COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Two people were wounded in an explosion that ripped through a chapel in this city yesterday morning.

Marybel Atis, 40, and Rosita Tubilo, 65, were praying at the Sto. Niño Chapel in Barangay Rosary Heights 3 when a grenade exploded, according to  Col. Querubin Manalang, Jr., Cotabato City police chief.

Reports said two motorcycle-riding men pulled over by the entrance and hurled a grenade into the chapel.

Atis and Tubilo were rushed to a hospital by barangay emergency responders for treatment of shrapnel wounds.