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       Explosion at Catholic Mass in Philippines Kills at Least 4 and Injures Dozens

       The blast, which was claimed by the Islamic State, occurred in a restive area in the south that was the site of a devastating battle with an ISIS affiliate six years ago.

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       Police investigators on Sunday at the site of an explosion at Mindanao State University in the south Philippine city of Marawi. Credit...Lanao del Sur Provincial Government/EPA, via Shutterstock

       By Jason Gutierrez

       Reporting from Manila

       Dec. 2, 2023

       At least four people were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday in an explosion at a Roman Catholic Mass inside a university gymnasium in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, officials said.

       The Islamic State later claimed responsibility for the attack in its Telegram channel.

       The blast, thought to be caused by a grenade or a homemade bomb, ripped through a gymnasium at Mindanao State University. The university, in Lanao del Sur Province, was at the center of fighting in 2017 that displaced more than 100,000 people, after local and foreign Islamic State militants laid siege to Marawi.

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