COTABATO CITY: Five persons, including an Army trooper, were hurt after a suspected homemade bomb placed in a parked open-type Wrangler jeep exploded near the city plaza along Makakua Street here around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Superintendent Rolen Balquin, city police director, identified those injured as Pvt. Dondon Asuncion Bambao, of the Army’s 5th Special Forces Battalion (SFB); Abdulrakman Utto, Mambai Datumanong, Baingan Ango and Lumbay Selbando, all vendors selling their respective wares at the plaza area.