Spokesman Zia Alonto Adiong of the Provincial Crisis Management Committee expressed gratitude to Bayan Muna Representative Carlos Zarate and the rest of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission for the support they extended to the evacuees from Marawi and for their eagerness to enter the area to see the actual situation.
A looming humanitarian crisis is feared as the air and ground military offensives by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) against the ISIS-linked Maute Group and Abu Sayyaf continue in Marawi.
A team from the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission were denied entry by the military to Marawi City on Thursday, June 15.
Eleven unclaimed bodies of civilians put inside plywood coffins are placed in apartment-type tombs at the Dalipuga Public Cemetery in Iligan City for a mass burial on Thursday morning, June 15. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
Eleven unidentified dead bodies were buried at a public cemetery here on Thursday.