Australian journo shot in war-torn Philippine city

An Australian television journalist was shot in the neck yesterday as he reported from a southern Philippine city where Islamist militants are battling government troops, but he did not suffer major injuries.

Adam Harvey, a reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, wrote on Twitter: "Lucky", alongside an image of an X-ray showing the bullet lodged in his neck, close to his spine.

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"Thanks everyone - I'm okay. Bullet is still in my neck, but it missed everything important," he said in another Twitter post.

Harvey was shot in Marawi, the most important Muslim city in the mainly Catholic Philippines where government forces are struggling to defeat hundreds of militants fighting under the black flags of the Islamic State (IS) group.