Police have received a new Mi-17V-5 multi-role helicopter as part of the equipment modernisation project to enhance mobility. Russian Helicopters, part of state corporation Rostec, delivered the aircraft on Wednesday to Interior ministry officials led by CS Joseph Nkaissery. The "rotorcraft" was by Kazan Helicopters.

Sixteen people were wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas eve mass in the Philippines' restive southern island of Mindanao, a priest and police said on Saturday.