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Johainah Nasrodeng, 5, writes in her notebook at a makeshift classroom for student evacuees at the Pantar Central Elementary School in Pantar, Lanao del Norte on the southern island of Mindanao on June 6, 2017. The schoolchildren, some 238 of them with their parents fled by foot for eight hours from Marawi City to Pantar municipality in a bid to escape heavy fighting. With bomb-proof tunnels, anti-tank weapons hidden in mosques, human shields and a “mastery” of the terrain, Islamist militants holed up in a southern Philippine city are proving a far tougher opponent than military chiefs expected. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP Photo)
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