Manila names two members of pro-Islamic State group as bomb suspects

Policemen and soldiers from the military arrive at Mindanao State University in Marawi City, Lanao del Sur province on Dec 4, 2023, a day after a bomb attack. - AFP

MANILA: Philippine police on Wednesday (Dec 6) named two men suspected of being involved in a deadly blast that killed four people during a Catholic mass in a southern city at the weekend.

Those suspected of orchestrating the attack in Marawi were members of Daulah-Islamiyah Maute, a pro-Islamic State militant group that took control of the city in 2017 and held it through five months of ground offensives and air strikes by the military.