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The Philippine National Police arrested a suspect in the roadside bombing that targeted a provincial governor in southern Philippines on Tuesday, the military today said.

Mhidzfar Cutan was apprehended after police raided his home in Tuyan village in Malapatan town, in Mindanao's Sarangani province, Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang, spokesperson of the military's Eastern Mindanao Command said.

Quoting a police report, Cabangbang said Cutan took hostage his two children before he surrendered to lawmen after a 30-minute negotiation.

Sarangani Governor Miguel Dominguez was unhurt when his convoy was almost hit by the explosion at a bridge in the same town during the campaign to the May 10 elections. The provincial official was about to meet a presidential candidate when the explosion happened.

Authorities said witnesses had positively identified Cutan as the last person seen at the vicinity shortly before the bomb, which was placed on a parked motorcycle, went off. - Philippine Star