FBI confirms DNA sample from Hapilon’s remains
THE United States’ Federal Bureau of InDNA testing that the body retrieved from Marawi City believed to be Isnilon Hapilon’s is indeed his remains. the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has from a body recovered by our operating units in Marawi matches that of Isnilon
- renzana said in a statement on Saturday. being conducted on the cadavers of the other terrorists that have been recovered so far,” Lorenza added.
Hapilon and Omarkhayam Maute were both killed in a predawn assault by the Philippine Army’s Scout Rangers and Light Reaction on Monday. Their remains were retrieved by the same units.
Lorenzana had said that the location of the two were pinpointed by a female hostage, whose identity the Armed Forces of the Philippines refused to disclose.
The day after the operations, President Rodrigo Duterte declared Marawi City liberated from the hands of the terrorists amid ongoing clashes to crack down the remaining extremists in the main battle zone. Three days after, Malaysia’s most wanted terrorist and former academi-dead by the military following an overnight operation.
‘Not interested’
As for the remains of Maute, Lorenzana said the FBI “might not be interested” in running DNA tests.
“Maybe they (FBI) are not interested because they do not have a reward for
were killed.
At least 1,108 people, mostly terrorists, have died since clashes erupted in the city on May 23.
Some 400,000 residents in Marawi City and nearby towns were also forced to evacuate, as the crisis left much of the city in ruins.
Government has begun laying down plans to rebuild Marawi, once a bustling urban and cultural capital and the country’s only Islamic city.