A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholic devotees on Monday joined an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ held under tight security due to fears of a possible attack following the killing of a suspected Islamic extremist leader.
The US and British embassies asked their citizens to take precautions, and the police warned that local Muslim militants trying to align themselves with ISIS may try to attack the procession of the wooden Black Nazarene with a cross along Manila's streets.
