Islamist militants storm school in the Philippines, take students hostage

Updated June 21 2017 - 2:01pm, first published 1:58pm

Manila: Pro-Islamic State militants stormed a school in the southern Philippines early on Wednesday and are holding several students hostage, police said, on the same island where fighting between government troops and Islamists has entered its fifth week.

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