COTABATO CITY: Local government officials in Lanao del Sur are urging authorities to investigate an Islamic school or Madrasa whose name is being withheld while investigation of its alleged links to the Maute terror group, now sporting the name of Dawlah Islamiya, is yet to begin.

The Dawlah Islamiya figured recently in a gunfight with the military in Butig, Lanao del Sur, where, according to military sources, the terror group suffered more than a dozen casualties.