Five years after the Marawi Siege, ‘Ground Zero,’ the former main battle area between government forces and the Islamic State-inspired Maute Group and its allies remains a ‘ghost town’ as residents have yet to return home.

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Only 95 families out of 17,793 families displaced from the 250-hectare, 24-barangay ‘Ground Zero’ have returned home, according to the Task Force Bangon Marawi. Some 5,000 families are living in transitory shelters in the outskirts of the city, around 800 in permanent shelters.

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Here are photos of ‘Ground Zero’ on April 1, 2022. MindaNews photos by GREGORIO C.

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