A free-for-all fist fight between supporters of two rival political parties left six of them wounded and another one admitted into a hospital for a gunshot wound during Monday’s balloting in Maguindanao.
A person was killed while 23 others were injured in violence committed during Election Day in Lanao del Sur. Local election monitors said that when compared to the extent of election violence in the past elections, Monday’s balloting in the province could be considered tame.
Minor power interruptions or outages hit at least three Mindanao areas on Monday but these had barely affected the conduct of the balloting, the Mindanao Development Authority (Minda) reported.
For survivors of Typhoon “Pablo,” election also means payback time. In Poo, an islet off the coast of Barangay (village) Kinablangan here, residents said they would not vote for candidates and politicians who are involved in logging and mining activities.
A 70-year-old voter died when she collapsed while waiting for her turn to vote at the Lagao National High School in Monday afternoon.
Following Sunday’s violence in SK Pendatun town in Maguindanao that led to the killing of the education district supervisor, the Commission on Elections has put the town under its control, with deputized police officers taking the lead as Board of Election Inspectors.
A grenade was fired towards the polling precinct in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on Monday morning apparently to scare off voters on Election Day, according to local officials.
A son of a mayoral candidate in Glan town in Sarangani reportedly beat up a volunteer reporter of RMN-Radyo Agong while covering the election at around 9 a.m. Monday.
Police arrested 18 people onboard a convoy of motorcycles and a government-owned truck after they yielded firearms when flagged down at a poll checkpoint in Malita, Davao del Sur Monday.
A voter was killed while five others were wounded when unidentified men fired at a convoy of voters in Tiptipon village in Panglima Estino town in Sulu on Monday morning.
An hour after voting precincts opened in the village of Patin-ay here, at least five percent of the registered voters have cast their votes, according to Board of Election Inspector Luzviminda Baron.
A grenade was lobbed at the Kabacan Pilot Elementary School in Kabacan, North Cotabato shortly before midnight on Sunday, the military said Monday.
The New People’s Army (NPA) are allegedly holding seven policemen escorting four barangay (village) captains who they claimed were out to
buy votes for a congressional candidate in the village of Paquibato, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday.
