(Eagle News) — Authorities are now investigating the second friendly fire incident that saw two soldiers killed and 11 others injured in Marawi on Wednesday.
The investigation will cover how a bomb released fell 200 meters away from a Maute hideout, in “an area proximate to a building where soldiers were hiding.”
“The building absorbed the shock of the bomb that exploded, that caused a lot of debris to fall. The debris caused the (deaths and injuries),” Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesperson Brigadier General Restituto Padilla said in a television interview on Thursday, when asked about the incident that took place at noontime the day before.
According to Padilla, the injured were “all ambulatory” and are now “on their way to recovery.”
This is the second friendly fire incident in Marawi that caused government casualties, the first taking place early June, when at least ten soldiers were killed and seven others were injured.
According to the AFP spokesperson, the difference between this incident and that first one is that in the first, a bomb intended for militants fell “squarely” on some troops.