CAMP SK PENDATUN, Maguindanao — Eight bakery workers were
found dead by government forces pursuing terrorists Maute and Abu Sayyaf Group
in the outskirts of Marawi City, police and military authorities said on
Sunday.
The decomposing remains of eight men were found in a canal beside the
road leading to Marawi City at about 6 a.m. Sunday, a police report received by
police regional office for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (PNP-ARMM)
here showed.
Police and military forces have been conducting house-to-house clearing
operations and aerial strikes to clear the city of Maute and Abu Sayyaf
fighting groups who terrorized the city on May 23.
"The all-male victims' hands were tied with rope and had bullet
wounds," a report from Lanao del Sur provincial police office said.
The identities of the victims were not immediately available as of
posting but they were identified by residents as "bakery workers."
On Saturday, the Western Mindanao command, in a statement, said there
is no civilian casualty in air strikes in Marawi City.
Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez, Westmincom chief, said the aerial strikes were
surgical and receive precise information from ground troops before launching
air to ground strikes.
Government forces have been pursuing about 50 heavily armed terrorists
who attacked the city to raise ISIS flags. (Edwin O. Fernandez/PNA)
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