December 28, 1993, New York Times, Philippine Mosques Attacked After Grenade Hits Cathedral,

December 28, 1993, New York Times, Philippine Mosques Attacked After Grenade Hits Cathedral,

Unidentified attackers threw a grenade into a mosque in the southern Philippines early today, injuring five people, apparently in retaliation for an attack on a Catholic cathedral in which six people died, the police said.

The grenade was thrown through a window of the mosque in Bangkirohan, a Muslim district of Davao City.

The police at the national headquarters in Manila said five people, two of whom were asleep and three of whom were praying, were injured.

It was the second attack on a mosque in Davao since Sunday, when six people died and more than 130 were injured in a grenade attack on the Roman Catholic San Pedro Cathedral. Two grenades were fired at another mosque in the city early Monday, but nobody was hurt.

Lininding Pangandaman, Governor of a Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao, called for calm between the two communities after the first attack on a mosque. The attacks have highlighted longstanding tension between Christians and Muslims on Mindanao island.