(Eagle News)– Brigadier General Restituto Padilla, spokesman for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), clarified on Friday that 10, not 11 soldiers, were killed in a bungled airstrike in Marawi City on Wednesday that hit government troops, instead of the targeted Maute rebels.
Padilla said that the earlier figure announced by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana that there were 10 soldiers killed in the airstrike was correct.
Padilla clarified that one fallen soldier was killed in a firefight with Maute members in Marawi, not in the botched airstrike.
On Thursday, Lorenzana said 10 soldiers were killed while eight others were wounded after the friendly fire incident in Marawi.
Lorenzana later changed the number of wounded to seven.
