“He loves fruit salad. He kept on asking us to prepare fruit salad,” said Rumar Marjalino, one of four hostages who escaped the extremists two weeks ago. ADVERTISEMENT“We [would] prepare only a small amount of fruit cocktail for him and add condensed milk,” Rumar said, adding that Omar would go to the kitchen every day to personally get his fruit salad. Rumar’s account belied earlier reports that Omar Maute was killed in the fighting last June and Hapilon had already fled the area. They were killed by our own soldiers believing they were Maute [group members],” he said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 18, 2017 23:03 UTC