He may or may not be fully aware that last Sunday, June 18, when this photo was taken, was Father’s Day, but proud father Saidomar Gibansa, despite their difficult situation inside the evacuation center at the gymnasium in Balo-i town in Lanao del Norte, expresses happiness that his family was able to escape safely from Marawi City when the fighting broke out last May 23. Gibansa is carrying his seven-month-old and youngest son in this photo. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
An aircraft, that resembles a US P3 Orion surveillance and reconnaissance plane, hovers over the skies of Marawi City on Sunday, June 18. The same plane was previously spotted in the skies of Marawi in the past days. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
Army troopers questioned a civilian of the purpose of his presence in one of the houses in a cleared street in Marawi City on Saturday, June 17 as military ground operations continue for more than three weeks now in the area. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
A soldier clears the second floor of this structure in one of the streets in Marawi City on Saturday, June 17 as military ground operations continue for more than three weeks now in the area. (Alex D. Lopez/davaotoday.com)
Residents in Barangay 23-C in Davao City keenly looks at two banners of terrorist watch list posted outside a building near the barangay hall. Military forces continue to hunt down terrorists as crisis in Marawi continues.(Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
Davaotoday.com witnessed the loading of the unclaimed dead bodies in wooden coffins from the funeral parlor, their transport that passed through the city proper of Iligan and their burial at Dalipuga Public Cemetery on Thursday, June 15.
In-house evacuees from Marawi and neighboring towns in Lanao del Sur province who are in Davao City receive relief goods from government and non-government organizations after the “Duyog Ramadan”, an interfaith forum-discussion held in a gym in Barangay 23-C, on Friday, June 16. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
A Muslim woman cries after seeing photos of the current situation in Marawi City displayed at the Mini-Forest Gym in Davao City on Friday. Moro organizations held an interfaith ‘Duyog Ramadan’ in Barangay 23-C where the gym is located for a forum-discussion where evacuees from Marawi and other neighboring towns in Lanao del Sur were gathered. (Robby Joy D. Salveron/davaotoday.com)
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)
Adam Harvey, reporter of Australian Broadcasting Corporation was hit by a stray bullet while covering the events at the provincial capitol of Lanao del Sur in Marawi City. Harvey was given a first aid treatment at the Amai Pakpak Medical Center. (Photo by Jaja Necosia/The Breakaway Media)
