Malacañang on Saturday assured the public that state forces would comply with President Rodrigo Duterte’s order not to bomb mosques in Marawi City amid the military’s intensified operations against the Islamic State-linked Maute terrorists in the war-torn city.

In a statement, Palace spokesman Ernesto Abella said the government troops were one with the President in preserving Muslims’ places of worship in Marawi City.

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