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Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Philippines Catholic Mass Bombing

Philippine police identify two members of the pro-Islamic State Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute group as suspects.

  • Four people were killed and 50 were wounded during a Catholic mass in Marawi, the Philippines' largest Muslim city, when a bomb exploded.
  • The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bombing, which Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos blamed on 'foreign terrorists'.
  • Philippine police named two Filipino members of the Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute group, Kadapi Mimbesa and Arsani Membisa, as suspects in the bombing.
  • A third man, still unidentified, acted as a lookout for the attackers.
  • The Dawlah Islamiyah-Maute group was one of the pro-Islamic State groups that held Marawi under siege in 2017.
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