Britain has warned its citizens against travelling to the insurgency-racked southern Philippine island of Mindanao after a bomb went off in a mainly Muslim city there on Monday, killing two and wounding dozens.
Philippine security officials are linking the blast outside a shopping mall in Cotabato city in central Mindanao to two small militant groups that have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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