BREAKING: The joint investigation by the military and the police identified the bomber as Norman Lasuca through DNA test.
A Filipino was one of the suspects in the suicide bombing of a Sulu military base on June 28.
" the incidence of the first suicide bombing in the Philippines perpetrated by a Filipino," AFP Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said. Lasuca, said to be in his early 20s, was a battered child who ran away from home in 2014, Arevalo quoted his mother as saying.Siya ay biktima ng kanyang ama, na isang laborer... napagbubuntungan ng galit ang batang Norman. ay naglayas at di na nakita ng kanyang pamilya[Translated: He is a victim of his father, a laborer, who would take his anger out on the young Norman. He ran away and was never seen again by his family.
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