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VOL. 6 NO. 273
ARRIVAL HONORS
Marines carry the coffins of 13 of their own who were killed in fighting terrorists in Marawi City on Friday as they arrive at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on Sunday night. President Duterte led the arrival ceremony and condoled with the families of the fallen soldiers. GRIG MONTEGRANDE / PDI
Philippine flag raised on Independence Day in war torn city THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARAWI, PHILIPPINES — Filipinos marked their country’s Independence Day by raising the national flag Monday in a southern city where troops pressed assaults to quell a three-week siege by Islamic State group-aligned militants that has left 270 combatants and civil-
ians dead. Many were teary-eyed during the flag-raising ceremonies at the heavily guarded city hall and provincial capital building in Marawi, the heartland of the Islamic faith in the country’s south, where hundreds of gunmen went on a deadly rampage on May 23.
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Philippines says it learned of city siege plans in advance
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