COTABATO CITY — A grenade blast ripped through a Catholic chapel in the village of Rosary Heights 3 here on Sunday morning, hurting two people and causing panic among villagers.

One of two men on a motorcycle pulled over the church entrance and hurled a grenade before running away, Colonel Querubin L. Manalang, Jr., Cotabato City police director, told reporters.

The victims were brought to a nearby hospital

The explosion caused panic among mixed Muslim and Catholic residents in Purok Silangan. — John Felix M. Unson