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16 injured in Christmas Eve blast at Catholic Church in Philippines

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07:29 AM, 25 Dec, 2016
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16 injured in Christmas Eve blast at Catholic Church in Philippines

Manila (Reuters): At least 16 people were injured in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas Eve mass in the Philippines' restive southern island of Mindanao, in the late hours of Saturday.


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Security forces across Southeast Asia are on alert ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays, as police in Australia and Indonesia said they had foiled bomb plots and Malaysian security forces arrested suspected militants.

No group has claimed responsibility for the Mindanao attack, but Muslim rebels and Islamist extremists are known to be active in the province, where there have been blasts in the past.

Midsayap town police Chief Bernardo Tayong said, most of the injured had been standing outside the Sto. Nino parish church in Midsayap town, North Cotabato.

Father Jay Virador said the blast sent the congregation fleeing.

Virador said, "There were no more concluding prayers as there was a commotion. People hurriedly left the Church."

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The police chief said that one police officer was wounded because he was standing near a patrol car where the grenade exploded, about 30 meters from the church entrance.

Tayong said bomb experts were still at the site. There were reports that another grenade or improvised bomb was also left in the area. "Our details are sketchy yet," he said.

The U.S. embassy in Manila said citizens had been warned against traveling to volatile southern islands due to kidnapping and bombing threats.

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