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(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Byline: Tarra Quismundo

AN EXPLOSION was heard in the heart of Divisoria. Then sirens.

Shortly after, men in uniform came to rescue dozens of "casualties," and cordon off the corner of Soler Street and C.M. Recto Avenue, which terrorists had "attacked."

Yesterday was Ninos Inocentes, a day when people pulled jokes on others, in commemoration of the Biblical escape of the child Jesus from the murderous hunt of King Herod.

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