ILL-FATED BUS. The Mindanao Star Bus where an explosion happened is cordoned off by the police while bomb experts do a post-blast probe in Aleosan, North Cotabato on Tuesday (Jan. 11, 2022). A five-year-old child was killed hours after the blast, with six other injured victims underwent treatment at a government hospital in Cotabato City. (Photo courtesy of the Aleosan MPS) ALEOSAN, North Cotabato - The five-year-old boy injured in the bombing of a passenger bus here on Tuesday morning expired while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Cotabato City. "My boy died due to multiple shrapnel wounds in different parts of his body," his father, Haron Solaiman, who was also injured in his left leg during the blast, said in the vernacular in a radio interview. The child was with his two siblings, aged 5 months old and three years old, while traveling with their father from Kabacan to Cotabato City when an improvised bomb went off inside the Mindanao Star Bus they were riding along t