THE police have identified at least two suspects in the bombing of a Catholic Mass that killed four people, a regional police chief said, vowing to hunt down those behind the blast, which was claimed by Islamic State activists.
The bomb went off on Sunday during a service at a university gymnasium in Marawi, a city left in ruins in 2017 by a five-month military campaign to end a bloody occupation by Islamic State loyalists that had triggered alarm across Asia.
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