The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) reported that the number of evacuees registered have ballooned to 80,000 families and still growing.
The MILF is the largest revolutionary organisation in the Philippine with approximately 10,000 armed fighters who struck a peace deal with the Philippine government in 2014.
Tourism Undersecretary, Frederick Alegra, said that the tourism department has already formed a team to draft the plan of transforming Marawi City in a new tourism hub
On Monday, military officers from the ten-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) boarded the carrier in Singapore and returned on Friday.