"LANAO DEL SUR, Philippines - Gunshots reverberated through villages in Barangay Basak Malulut in Marawi City as Maute gunmen and soldiers clashed there Tuesday, sending Maranaws running for their lives." -PhilStar Global
This event has uplifted the fear among Filipinos and even led to President Duterte's postponing of meeting in Russia just to get back to the Philippines. The president even announced a sixty-day Martial Law in Mindanao.
"Senior Superintendent Oscar Nantes, director of the Lanao del Sur provincial police, said the scene of the encounter is not too distant from their headquarters and the campus of the Mindanao State University.
“We can hear automatic gunshots from where we are,” Nantes told The STAR at exactly 3:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Local officials told The STAR loud explosions rocked the barangay as members of the Maute terror group and soldiers traded shots.
The Maute group is also known as the Dawlah Islamiya Philippines, which espouses hatred to non-Muslims.
It also boasts of loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and uses the black ISIS flag as its revolutionary banner." -PhilStar Global
God Help us.
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