- Advertisement -

By Nora Soriño
Iligan City Bureau Chief

Iligan City — On Tuesday evening, Rosario (not her real name) was on her way to Cagayan de Oro City. This was the day when news of trouble in nearby Marawi City broke out. She was then riding a bus from the terminal here at Tambo.

- Advertisement -

When the bus reached Tag-ibo, a sitio of Dalipuga, the bus suddenly stopped. So were the other vehicles, buses, and jeepneys creating traffic jam in the area. Uniformed police men were busy conducting searches on vehicles in the area and passengers were beginning to get irritated as it seemed to take forever for the authorities to do the job.

It was about past six in the evening, Rosario recalled.

People started to crane their necks out of the windows of their vehicles.

Rosario said she saw a bloodied man who was wearing a black band over his head.

Everybody who saw the man concluded the bloodied man could be a member of the dreaded Maute Group who had sowed mayhem in Marawi City earlier.

The man was wounded on one side of his body, Rosario saw and all through his body were knives still plunged to the wounds.

People then were in a lynching mode and she could hear shouts of “Kill him! Kill him!” Or “Stone him to death!”

The man though, Rosario said, remained quiet, with head also bloody and bowed.

She then heard of people saying that the man could have walked for miles and came to the city via the mountains up of Tag-ibo or nearby as Marawi City is bounded by several provinces including Lanao Norte, of which the city of Iligan is located.

Rosario later learned that the man, after hours of travelling entered a house in Tag-ibo and luckily, the owners of said house was able to alert authorities who were then on round the clock patrol as news of what happened in the city of Marawi was already ablaze.

Rosario then wondered why such encounter with a suspected Maute group member did not make it to prime time news in several media outfits.

 

Disclaimer

Mindanao Gold Star Daily holds the copyrights of all articles and photos in perpetuity. Any unauthorized reproduction in any platform, electronic and hardcopy, shall be liable for copyright infringement under the Intellectual Property Rights Law of the Philippines.

- Advertisement -