Another four Marawi City barangays ready for residents’ return

RESIDENTS of four more barangays in Marawi City are set to return home today, Dec. 11, under Task Force Bangon Marawi’s Kambalingan, or homecoming, program for the more than 350,000 people displaced by the gunbattle between government forces and local followers of the extremist Islamic State. The four barangays — Kormatan Matampay, Rorogagus East, Cabasaran, and Bangco — are part of the third Kambalingan group, which has earlier saw the return of residents in four other barangays. The first two Kambalingan clusters covered 19 barangays. Marawi City has 96 barangays, some of which were far enough from the battle zones and did not have residents who needed to flee.