The country’s first suicide bomber was a battered son who ran away from home in 2014, five years before he and another extremist blew themselves up outside a military camp in Jolo, Sulu, killing seven people, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP).

Norman Lasua. Photo courtesy of General Sobejana of WestMinCom.

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