MANILA, Philippines -- Terrorists bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in Manila, injuring eight people, and grenades hurled into a southern Philippines market killed four people and wounded 68 others, authorities said Sunday.
Police said eight people were wounded in the blasts at the five-star Philippine Plaza and Century Park Sheraton Hotel Saturday night.
Of the injured, two are Australian _ David Morse, 21, and John Willricth. Another foreigner, identified only as Sammy Williams, also was injured but his nationality was not immediately available.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the hotel bombings, police said.
In recent weeks, terrorist bombs in Manila have killed one American and injured 30 other people. The authorities have accused exiled opposition leader Benigno Aquino of being behind the terrorist attacks.
Police said an explosion rocked the Katchina Bar of the Century Park Sheraton Hotel at about 9 p.m., injuring five people including the Australians. About an hour later, three other people were hurt when another bomb exploded in a men's room at a bar in the Philippine Plaza Hotel.
Both Hotels are owned by close associates of the 63-year-old Marcos.
Authorities also said two suspected Moslem rebels riding in a jeep hurled grenades into a crowded market in the predominantly Christian southern Philippine town of Tagum killing four people and wounding 68 others Friday evening.
One of the dead in Friday's attack in the southern town of Tagum was a pregnant woman. Police in Davao, a port city near Tagum, blamed Moslem separatists for the atrocity.
The deaths brought to 17 the number of people killed in a wave of bombings and ambushes in the rebellion-torn Mindanao-Sulu region since Sept. 20, the eve of the eighth anniversary of martial law in the Philippines.
Police said 10 people were arrested for questioning in the grenade attack in Tagum, about 600 miles south of Manila.
Tagum Police Capt. Carlos Demirel said Moro National Liberation Front terrorists were responsible for the attack in the predominantly Christian town of 100,000.
Witnesses said the two men in a jeep raced through market at top speed, throwing grenades into the crowd. The explosions sparked panic and sent people diving for cover.
Authorities said a pedicab driver and a pregnant woman were killed instantly in the blasts. Two others died from shrapnel wounds Saturday morning and 10 of the 68 wounded were reported in serious condition.
'It was like Vietnam here,' said Dr. Francisco Manzanares, medical director of the Christ the King Hospital in Tagum. 'All the floors were splattered with blood. Most of the casualties were hit on the lower extremities.'
Police Officer Agrifino Coquilla said, 'We tried to chase the grenade throwers but the people were just difficult to control. They just panicked, shouting and running here and there, as if they have no minds at all.'
Rear Adm. Romulo Espaldon, armed forces commander in the troubled zone, said the terrorist actions in the south were launched 'to attract world attention' before the peace talks in Jakarta, Indonesia, next month between the Libyan-based MNLF leaders and the government. The talks are under the auspices of the 42-nation Islamic conference.
The MNLF has spearheaded a drive for Moslem self-rule in the south in fighting that has killed more than 60,000 people.
