Four killed in explosion in University of the Philippines gym

Manila. Nearly four people were killed and 50 injured in an explosion that rocked the Mindanao State University gymnasium in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur on Sunday morning. The local army and police informed about this on Sunday.
major. General Gabriel Wire, commander of the 1st Infantry Division, said the dead included three women and one man. According to him, the explosion occurred at 7 in the morning. local time, when students and teachers gathered in the gym for a Catholic mass. The victims were taken to the hospital.

Police are determining the type of explosive device used in the blast. Mindanao State University condemned “this senseless and horrific act” and is “deeply saddened and shocked by the act of violence.”
The university decided to suspend classes until further notice and deployed additional security personnel to protect the campus in Marawi City, the capital and largest city of Lanao del Sur on the island of Mindanao.

In 2017, local militants including the Maute group, a faction of the Abu Sayyaf group and others vowed to support Islamic State, while others seized the lakeside town for five months, killing more than 1,200 . Hundreds of thousands of residents were killed, hundreds of thousands of residents were forced to leave their homes, and parts of the city were destroyed.