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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The Marawi Grand Mosque after the 2017 siege, pictured in 2020. On May 23, 2017, a pro–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group called the Maute group attacked the city. The Battle of Marawi—also known as the Marawi siege, the Marawi clash, and the Marawi crisis—started on May 23. CNN Philippines reported that the militants had over 500 ...
Date Type Dead Injured Location Article Details Perpetrator Part of 1 January Bombing 20: 30: Kabul, Afghanistan 2023 Kabul airport bombing: A bomb was detonated outside a checkpoint near Kabul International Airport. [1] Islamic State – Khorasan Province: Islamic State–Taliban conflict: 4 January Car bombings 35: Unknown Mahas District ...
A bomb thrown at the screen of a movie theater exploded, the sixth in a series of bombings subsequently believed to have been part of the God Save the Queen Plot. [11] 18 March 1987 Baguio: 4 45 Improvised Explosive Device: A bomb exploded at the Philippine Military Academy where President Corazon Aquino was scheduled to speak. Some sources ...