Asean condemns Sunday’s bomb attack

The South-East Asian bloc Asean strongly condemned what it called a “heinous terrorist attack” in the southern Philippines last weekend in which four people were killed in a bombing at a Catholic Mass.

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 an occupation by Islamic State loyalists that triggered alarm in Asia about the group’s influence.