27 bodies recovered from war zone buried in Marawi cemetery | Inquirer News

27 bodies recovered from war zone buried in Marawi cemetery

/ 02:24 PM July 24, 2017

MARAWI CITY – Twenty-seven bodies were buried in a Muslim cemetery here on Monday morning.

Those buried were among the 29 bodies recovered from the war zone where government forces and Islamic State-inspired militants have been fighting for more than two months now.

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Danilo Capin of the Capin Funeral Parlor in Iligan City said two of the 29 bodies were not buried in the mass grave as their claimants were still awaiting DNA test results.

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The mass burial was held at the Maqbarah Muslim cemetery in Barangay Papandayan here, some three kilometers away from the war zone.

Airstrikes continued while the mass burial was being held./rga

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