At least 42 people, most of them students, were hurt after an explosion following a fraternity war near the De La Salle University in Manila on late Sunday afternoon, local media reported.

Of the wounded, nine victims were brought to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) while 15 others were rushed to Ospital ng Maynila.

The others were brought to private hospitals, according to a television report on Sunday night. According to the Tactical Operations Center of the Manila Police District, the incident occurred around 5:00 p.m. at the Taft Avenue near the De La Salle University where more than 5,000 law graduates were taking Bar examinations.

“We heard a loud explosion. The people panicked. We noticed injured people lying. There were at least five people injured, but the number may not go beyond eight or nine, ” Clarmen Dimatulac, a local police officer, was quoted by local radio dzBB as saying.

Glass bottles, broken and intact, were scattered around the incident area, as police evacuated panicked people from the scene, local TV footages showed.

A window pane of a street-side shop was shattered. According to the police, there were both bottle throwing and the explosion during the incident, but the nature of the explosion has yet to be confirmed.

Police has already started an investigation into the incident, said Agrimero Cruz, a Philippine National Police spokesman.

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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) condemned the United States and South Korea on Sunday for holding joint military exercises in the Yellow Sea on Sept. 27-Oct. 1, DPRK’s official KCNA news agency reported.

In a statement issued on Sunday, the DPRK’s Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea described the exercises as “a military provocation to destroy the efforts for detente on the Korean Peninsula.”

The so-called anti-submarine exercises will “chill the mounting atmosphere of improved inter-Korean relations and aggravate the confrontation and the premeditated war maneuvers to ignite a nuclear war at any cost,” said the statement.

The fact that Seoul is staging the military exercises with Washington the DPRK at a time when the two Koreas are holding dialogues to settle the Red Cross humanitarian issue is “an intolerable mockery of its dialogue partner and challenge to it,” the statement said.

It warned that the unprecedented exercises prove that the United States and South Korea are “stepping up the preparations for a real war,” stressing that the DPRK will “never pardon but wipe out any provocateurs.”

According to reports, the U.S.-S. Korean joint anti-submarine exercises will involve destroyers, submarines, patrol boats and patrol planes. Another U.S.-S. Korean exercise will also be staged in the Yellow Sea in late October.

The United States and South Korea have staged several large-scale military drills in Korean waters after the sinking of the “Cheonan” warship which killed 46 South Korean sailors in March.

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Two warring fraternity groups caused a commotion on Sunday afternoon by throwing bottles to each other, injuring some people in a university area in Philippine capital Manila, local police said.

The incident occurred around 5 p.m. Sunday at Taft Avenue near the De La Salle University where aspiring lawyers were taking Bar examinations, said the Tactical Operations Center of the Manila Police District, adding that police could not immediately determine the number of wounded people.

Radio reports had earlier said that a pill box exploded in the area, wounding at least five persons.

Quoting Manila Police District police officer Clarmen Dimatulac, local dzBB radio reported that a pillbox thrown by unidentified persons exploded in Manila on Sunday afternoon, wounding at least five persons.

“We heard a loud explosion. The people panicked. We noticed injured people lying. There were at least five people injured, but the number may not go beyond eight or nine,” Dimatulac said.

The discrepancies between the two accounts could not be immediately reconciled.

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