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Gov’t troops now in control of 3rd critical bridge in Marawi City, says Palace

  (Eagle News) — Government troops have now take control of Masiu Bridge in Marawi City, considered as the last of three critical bridges that the Islamist fighters had occupied at the start of the war so they could control the city’s business district. Masiu bridge is also the bridge that had been used as a “possible escape route” of the Islamist terrorists in Marawi City, consisting of the Maute group, the Abu Sayyaf group, […]