The propeller plane pitched into a dive over a city. The pilot released a bomb as the plane leveled off, and the ordnance ripped into an urban neighborhood, spraying debris over several buildings.
The scene, captured in a recent viral video, is said to have occurred over Marawi, a city of 200,000 people in the southern Philippines where a fierce battle has been waged since last month between government security forces and militants aligned with the Islamic State. Most residents have fled the city, and bombs have been dropped regularly onto areas held by the militants.
