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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
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ILOILO City – The city government plans to extend aid to Marawi City residents.
During yesterday’s 119th Philippine Independence Day celebration, Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said the city could release P500 thousand from its calamity fund for Marawi where government troops were fighting the Maute terrorist group.
“I will be sending an official letter to the city council requesting that the city government be allowed to use P500 thousand of its calamity fund as financial assistance to Marawi,” said Mabilog.
The aid will be coursed through the Office of the President, according to the mayor.
As of this writing, 58 government troops were confirmed death and around 120 wounded in the Marawi fighting which is now entering its fourth week.
The Maute group death toll, on the other hand, was placed at 191.
Thirteen of the recent losses were Marine troopers killed in a major engagement which lasted for some 14 hours in Barangay Lilot Madaya, Marawi City Friday last week.
The Iloilo City government marked Independence Day by raising the Philippine flag at Plaza Libertad.
Atty. Allana Mae Babayen-on, No. 4 in the 2016 Bar exams, was the guest speaker.
The Dinagyang 2017 champion Tribu Salognon performed.
Plaza Libertad was the site of the first raising of the Philippine flag in Panay Island after Spanish forces surrendered to local revolutionaries led by General Martin Delgado on Dec. 25, 1898./PN
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