ZAMBOANGA CITY: President Rodrigo Duterte has warned foreigners to stay out of Zamboanga over credible intelligence report that Islamic State (IS) and Abu Sayyaf terorists are targeting the southern Philippine city.

Addressing participants to the recently concluded 7th Union Asia-Pacific Regional Conference in Pasay City, ABS-CBN quoted Duterte as saying, “There’s a certain place which I would not recommend anybody to go there, not just yet, is Zamboanga. Some Europeans go there for bird watching, are captured and eventually they are decapitated even after the payment of ransom.”

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