Clashes displace 64K in Maguindanao

Around 13,000 families or 64,000 individuals had been displaced as of Wednesday in ongoing all-out offensive by government forces against Muslim separatists from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in Maguindanao province, according to the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team (ARMM-Heart).

But humanitarian aid has been given to the affected families in 11 towns of the province who had been evacuated to safer ground.