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Eight dead in Manila bomb blast

Manila - Blast at shopping mall
Manila - Blast at shopping mall

Eight people have been killed at least 89 wounded in an explosion in the Philippines.

The blast happened in a shopping mall in the capital, Manila.

Police say the blast may have been caused by a bomb.

Panicked shoppers ran out of the Glorietta mall in the Makati district of Manila as smoke billowed out of the building shortly after noon local time.

Police ordnance experts declared the building free of any more explosives early evening, allowing them to shift their work to investigating the blast.

The explosion reportedly left an eight-metre wide crater on the ground floor and blew a hole through the roof on the second floor.