04-06-2017 13:54 via yahoo.com

Philippine casino attacker a gambling addict, not terrorist: police

An armed man who killed 37 people when he set fire to a casino in the Philippine capital was a father-of-three from Manila motivated by heavy gambling debts and not terrorism, authorities said Sunday.The identification of the attacker as Jessie Javier Carlos, a Catholic, proves that claims of responsibility by the Islamic State group for Friday's attack were false, President Rodrigo Duterte and police said.Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said Carlos, 43, had three children and had been banne
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