MANILA: A grenade attack on a mosque in the
troubled southern Philippines killed two people early Wednesday, authorities
said, just days after a deadly Catholic cathedral bombing and a vote backing
Muslim self-rule.
“A grenade was lobbed inside a mosque
killing two persons and wounding another four,” regional military spokesman
Lieutenant Colonel Gerry Besana told AFP of the attack in Zamboanga City.
The victims were sleeping inside the mosque
at the time of the attack on the insurgency-plagued island of Mindanao, which
is home to the Philippines’ Muslim minority.
The blast comes as the country was on high
alert after a cathedral bombing that killed 21 people at Sunday mass on the
remote, Muslim-majority island of Jolo. The Islamic State group claimed
responsibility for the cathedral blast.
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