Five killed by WWII bomb in Philippines
Monday, August 28, 2006

Manila, Five people were killed when a World War II vintage bomb exploded along a beach in a province south of Manila, said Philippine police Monday.


The victims were killed Sunday when they dived into the site of a wreckage of a Japanese wartime ship sunk by a US bomber in 1945 off a coastal village in Batangas to collect metal scraps, said a police official.

Batangas, 100 km south of Manila, and its coast were battlefields between US and Japanese troops during World War II.