EIGHT more members of the terrorist Maute group were killed as intense fighting between government forces and the extremist band continued in Butig, Lanao del Sur on Monday, a military official said.
This brought to 19 the number of jihadists slain since they occupied the old and abandoned Butig municipal hall on Saturday, according to Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla Jr., spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
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