MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine military official says a marine ordnance expert was killed and two others wounded when one of several bombs they were trying to defuse around a house exploded on restive southern Jolo island.



Marine Col. Jose Cenabre says an ordnance team was deployed Saturday to a house of a village leader in Jolo's Panglima Estino in Sulu province where residents reported finding more than 10 bombs made from ammonium nitrate around the residence. The marines had defused one bomb and were working on a second one, which suddenly exploded.



Cenabre said Sunday that the bombs may have been placed around the house like booby-traps due to a clan war involving the village leader.



He says Abu Sayyaf extremists, who are active in Sulu, apparently were not involved. — AP