(MARAWI, Philippines)—A Philippine air force plane dropping bombs on Islamic extremists killed 11 soldiers and wounded seven others in "friendly fire" as government forces were struggling to rout the militants who have laid a weeklong siege in a southern city, the military said Thursday. A Philippine military Marchetti S-211 jet bombed a tactical position in the southern city of Marawi, overrun with Islamic terrorists belonging to Abu Sayyaf and the Maute group – indigenous jihadist movements that have pledged allegiance to Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – on Wednesday.
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announces the deaths of ten soldiers in Marawi as a result of a "friendly fire" airstrike.