ILIGAN CITY -- Twenty seven cadavers retrieved from the main battle area in Marawi City will be buried on Tuesday, September 5, in a Muslim cemetery.
Assemblyman Zia Alonto Adiong, spokesperson of the Provincial Crisis Management Committee, said the burial has been coordinated and approved by the military, the Joint Task Force Bangon Marawi, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Team, Marawi Rescue Team, and imams.
Adiong said the cadavers will come from Capin Funeral Homes in Camague in Iligan City to the village of Papandayan where the Muslim cemetery Maqbara is located.
"The cadavers will have its individual dug up tomb not a mass grave," Adiong said
Danny Capin, owner of Capin Funeral Home, said the cadavers were assigned individual codes after the DNA tests conducted by Scene of the Crime Operatives medical expert.
"Five more newly arrived cadavers with gunshot wounds fresh from the MBA are subject to DNA testing are not yet included in the burial rites, " Capin said.
The military had confirmed earlier that some of the cadavers were extremists killed by government forces.
The military said the fighting, now on its third month, will end soon.