Kaotao bus bombing

The Kaotao bus bombing, or often known as 1/9, was an Islamist terrorist attack occurred in Kaotao, Utanga, YinYangia, on January 9, 2009, that mostly targeted the ethnic Filipinos in the city. A private bus was hijacked by Abdur Rahman Habib, a -muslim man from, and a was put and detonated in the bus which was parked near the Baribari Park, killing 40 people and injuring 102. All the people in the bus have died after the attack and one of the victims was Ashton Maizwe, a YinYangian model and actor.

Abdur Rahman Habib claimed responsibility of the attack in 2010 and he wanted to "avenge" the persecution of Moros in the. Habib was sentenced to death on July 5, 2010, and was executed by firing squad on May 12, 2014. It was later revealed that Habib was involved in the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. A member from the Orange Dragons avenged the Kaotao bombing by shooting a mosque in Hanzhuan in the 10th anniversary of the 1/9 bombing on January 9, 2019, which was an inspiration of the.

In 2011, Nasir Jalil Shah, an imam of the Kaotao Grand Mosque, was executed by firing squad for planning the attack. Shah was an Afghan refugee who arrived in YinYangia in 2007, and he planned this to avenge YinYangia's military intervention in the Afghan War. January 9 was officially recognized as a state holiday by Utanga to show solidarity to the bus bombing, and all Utangans are required to do so regardless of where they live.

Attack
In the morning of January 9, 2009, a bus carrying 29 people was en route to Kaotao from Binyakasi. It was hijacked by Islamist terrorist Abdul Rahman Habib, who disguised himself as a bus driver, at 11:42 am, when it arrived to the suburban town of Taunmay, and parked near the Baribari Park. Habib detonated a car bomb at the back of the driver's seat, and immediately fled the bus. The bomb exploded at 11:48 am, killing all of the bus passengers and 11 people near it. 32 of the victims were ethnic Filipinos, 4 were YinYangiese, 2 were Mandarin-speaking Han, 1 was Japanese, and 1 was Russian.