A powerful explosion ripped through a Catholic mass in the southern Philippines this morning. Four people were killed and 40 people were left injured. The explosion took place during the morning mass that was underway in a state-run University gymnasium.

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A series of explosions rocked Sunday night a southern Philippine city known for Islamic State-linked violence, wounding at least 17 people including soldiers, a military official said.

Bombings rock southern Philippines, over a dozen injured

A powerful earthquake hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Sunday, killing a child, injuring dozens and damaging buildings in an area still recovering from a string of deadly quakes in October.

Child killed as earthquake strikes southern Philippines

Two explosions rocked the majority Muslim area of the southern Philippines on Monday, few hours before elections were to begin in the country. No casualty was reported in the incident.

Two explosions rock southern Philippines ahead of election day

Three days after the twin bombings of a church on a nearby island that killed 21 people, a grenade thrown into a mosque in the southern Philippines killed two people and wounded four, Reuters reported security officials as saying on Wednesday.

After church bombings, grenade attack on Philippines mosque leaves 2 dead

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