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Some war-displaced return to Marawi to find their homes either leveled or looted

Residents who returned from evacuation centers walk past a bullet-ridden house believed to have been rented by pro-Islamic State militant group leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute in Marawi, in the southern Philippines, on Sunday. | REUTERS

Residents who returned from evacuation centers walk past a bullet-ridden house believed to have been rented by pro-Islamic State militant group leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omar Maute in Marawi, in the southern Philippines, on Sunday. | REUTERS

By Martin Petty
Reuters

Oct 30, 2017

MARAWI, PHILIPPINES – Khaliluddin Ismail returned home Sunday after five months of war in the southern Philippines to find his house ransacked. But he’s still smiling.

“At least we have something left,” he said, standing in a room with clothes, toys, ornaments and damaged pictures strewn across the floor.

“Others have nothing. They lost their homes, they lost their lives.”

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