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Bloodied and broken: Rising toll of Philippines' war with ISIS

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By Euan McKirdy and Ivan Watson, CNN

Updated 0505 GMT (1305 HKT) June 26, 2017

Iligan, Philippines (CNN) -- During the rainy season on the southern Philippines island of Mindanao, storms are foreshadowed by flashes of lightning in the distance, visible above the treetops.

When the rain finally comes, it is a vicious, torrential downpour, which ends as abruptly as it begins.

While the rains come and go, the flow of wounded into a military hospital in the north of the island does not. Just as two ambulances pull into the hospital at Camp Evangelista in Cagayan de Oro, the skies once again open up, muddying the dirt courtyard. They discharge yet another 10 soldiers, wounded in what is becoming a bloody, protracted insurgency by ISIS-affiliated militants.

Lt. Col. Jonna Dalaguit, the facility's chief medical officer, looks exhausted from the constant stream of broken men who are ferried into her hospital, brought in displaying the wounds of war -- "bullet wounds, blast wounds, fractures," she tells CNN.

"We have (admitted around) 330 casualties since day two of this crisis." It's the worst count she's ever seen.

It's been like this for a month, since ISIS-aligned fighters stormed the northern Mindanao city of Marawi, capturing key government buildings and setting fire to churches and schools.

In the weeks that followed, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have slowly clawed back territory in the city, but a stubborn remnant of around 100 fighters clings to a handful of inner city neighborhoods, despite a sustained -- and some argue indiscriminate -- campaign of government airstrikes .. http://cnn.com/2017/05/30/asia/philippines-marawi-isis-hapilon/index.html .. reducing much of the city to rubble.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/25/asia/philippines-marawi-isis/index.html

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