MARAWI CITY – A 55-year-old evacuee was hit by a wayward caliber 5.56 bullet as he was resting at his family’s assigned quarters on the second floor of a government building inside the provincial capitol here on Thursday. A source told the Inquirer that a few hours before Mangorsi was hit, a soldier at the military brigade headquarter adjacent to the capitol compound was also injured by a bullet. On June 22, as Ismail Saripada, a provincial utility worker, was going about his job, a stray bullet hit him shortly before 4 p.m. The incident involving Saripada came about a week after Australian journalist Adam Harvey was also hit by a wayward bullet on the neck while taking a break near the Infirmary. ADVERTISEMENTBullets regularly rained on the capitol, where some 1,600 people – evacuees, government officials, journalists, soldiers and military men – converge on a daily basis.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 14, 2017 11:48 UTC