In Lanao Norte, gunshots punctuate end of polls
On Monday evening, as the elections wound up here, the sound of gunshots rang through the air.
On Monday evening, as the elections wound up here, the sound of gunshots rang through the air.
Hundreds of people have surrounded the town hall of Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte, to show support for embattled Mayor Rommel Arnado, who is facing possible ouster after the Supreme Court ruled that his candidacy in the 2010 elections was invalid.
For using his US passport four times despite having renounced his American citizenship, a Lanao del Norte mayor has been ousted from his post and barred by the Supreme Court from running for public office.
Emotions ran high in four Lanao del Norte towns and three in Lanao del Sur as relatives on Saturday buried 12 persons who were killed when armed men ambushed the campaign team of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan on Thursday.
At least seven people, including two children, were saved from harm when soldiers from the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade conducted an open sea rescue operation in Lanao del Norte, Brig. Gen. Daniel Lucero, head of the military’s 1st Infantry Division, said on Saturday.
The death toll in Thursday’s ambush on the campaign party of Mayor Abdulmalik Manarampan of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte, has risen to 13 with the death of one of the injured victims, the military said Saturday.
Police said Saturday they have identified and are hunting eight gunmen who killed 13 people in an ambush on a mayor, an attack that cast a pall of fear over upcoming elections.
It’s a family feud (rido) complicated by politics. Thus was described the deadliest attack so far in a string of election-related violence in Mindanao in the run-up to the May 13 elections.
Twelve people were killed and several others were wounded, including the incumbent mayor of Nunungan town, Lanao del Norte, in an ambush Thursday night, police said Friday.
This is one for the record books. In the province of Lanao del Norte, the elected mayor of a small town goes to law school while his father, who he replaced as executive in 2010, runs the town’s affairs.
Authorities seized an arms cache and invited for questioning several men during a raid at the house of a member of the Dimaporo clan, who serves as mayor of a Lanao del Norte town, a police spokesperson said on Thursday.
A negotiated political settlement to the long-running Moro rebellion in Mindanao is only a short-term solution, conceded government chief negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer.
Unidentified gunmen on Thursday evening shot dead a stalwart of President Benigno Aquino III’s Liberal Party in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte on Thursday evening.
