Philippine police announced on Monday, the arrest of a suspected pro-Islamic State (IS) jihadist accused of killing civilians in last year’s deadly siege of the southern city of Marawi. Nasser Lomondot was arrested on Saturday in Manila, months after he fled the fighting in Marawi. He was arrested with a second pro-IS suspect, Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said in a statement. Hundreds of gunmen flying black IS flags seized Marawi in May last year, triggering a five-month battle that claimed more than 1,100 lives, in a bid to establish a caliphate in the largely Catholic country. Months after being routed from the southern Philippine city of Marawi, militants are waging a fresh and deadly bid to set up a Southeast Asian caliphate in the same region. The gunmen have mustered a force of about 200 fighters and fought a series of skirmishes with the security forces this year after government forces retook Marawi on October 2017.