IT’S been a week since elite police commandos stormed Mamasapano town in Maguindanao to arrest Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and Abdul Basit Usman but authorities are yet to receive confirmation that Marwan was indeed killed in the fierce firefight that claimed the lives of 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF).

“Photographs are not confirmation that Marwan is dead. It can easily be manufactured in a photo shop,” a security source who asked not to be identified told The Manila Times on Sunday.

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