"We are in a state of emergency. I have a serious problem in Mindanao and the ISIS footprints are everywhere."
Source/Credit: CBC / AP
By Jim Gomez, Teresa Cerojano | May 24, 2017
Rodrigo Duterte cuts trip short after 14 hostages including a priest taken in siege of Marawi
Muslim extremists abducted a Catholic priest and more than a dozen churchgoers while laying siege to a southern Philippine city overnight, burning buildings, ambushing soldiers and hoisting flags of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group, officials said Wednesday. President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law in the southern third of the nation and warned he would enforce it harshly.
The violence erupted Tuesday night after the army raided the hideout of Isnilon Hapilon, an Abu Sayyaf commander who is on Washington's list of most-wanted terrorists with a reward of up to $5 million US for his capture. The militants called for reinforcements from an allied group, the Maute, and some 50 gunmen managed to enter the city of Marawi.
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