MARAWI: Thousands of displaced people remain in emergency shelters and the threat of militant extremists and unexploded bombs linger in the rubble of a southern Philippine city, where survivors remembered a disastrous five-month siege by Islamic State group-aligned fighters that began a year ago.
The Rev Teresito Soganub, who survived 117 days of captivity by the extremists in Marawi city, said that aside from the devastation, it would take years for him and other civilians to overcome the horror of having lived through airstrikes and gunbattles that threatened them day and night.