Militants allied with Islamic State execute Filipinos who could not recite prayers

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated May 29 2017 - 2:28pm, first published 2:21pm

Extremists allied with Islamic State are believed to have executed Filipinos in a besieged southern city of the Philippines because they could not recite Islamic prayers, as the death toll from six days of fighting rose to 100, with dozens wounded.

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