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On December 3, 2023 at around 7:30 a.m., during a Mass being conducted at the Dimaporo Gymnasium of Mindanao State University in Marawi, an improvised explosive device detonated [9] [10] after the Kyrie portion. [6] [11] There were around 72 attendees of the Mass, [12] which was presided by Franciscan priest Benigno Flores Jr., who survived the ...
At least four people were killed and at least 50 injured after a bomb exploded during a morning Catholic Mass in a university gymnasium in Marawi, a city in the south of the country besieged by ...
The siege of Marawi (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Marawi), [30] [31] also known as the Marawi crisis (Krisis sa Marawi) [32] and the Battle of Marawi (Labanan sa Marawi), was a five-month-long armed conflict in Marawi, Philippines, that started on May 23, 2017, between Philippine government security forces against militants affiliated with the Islamic State (IS), including the Maute and Abu Sayyaf ...
MANILA (Reuters) -Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing at a Catholic Mass in the Philippines on Sunday that killed at least four people and injured 50 others.
Between June and December 2023, twenty-one senior members of the group were killed during security operations in Mindanao. Several commanders were among those killed, including leader Abu Zacharia. [77] On October 29, 2023, senior commander Samaon Odin Amil accidentally killed himself after a home-made bomb prematurely exploded in Datu Salibo. [78]
Poverty Incidence of Marawi 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2000 23.30 2003 28.91 2006 27.60 2009 34.48 2012 60.04 2015 54.64 2018 63.18 2021 20.42 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The economy of Marawi is largely based on agriculture, trading, and exporting. Most industries in the city are agriculture-oriented. They include rice and corn farming, hollow blocks manufacturing, goldsmithing, and saw ...
23 May 2017, The Abu Sayyaf join forces with BIFF, AKP and the Maute Group to attack Marawi City as part of their aleigance to Islamic State. However their plan to take-over the city to make them as the wilayat of Islamic State are ultimately failed because they are completely wiped out by the combined forces of the Military Ground forces and ...
Suicide bombing 19+ (+1) 38: Fayzabad, Afghanistan 2023 Fayzabad mosque bombing: A bomb exploded in a mosque where a memorial service was held for Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the governor of Badakhshan who was killed by the Islamic State in the same week. The Islamic State also claimed responsibility for the mosque bombing. [59] [60] [61] [62]