Mayor hurt, 12 killed in ambush

Gunmen ambushed the convoy of a Lanao del Norte mayor on April 25, killing at least 12 — including the mayor’s granddaughter — and wounding 7 others. Mayor Abdulmalik Manamparan of Nunungan, Lanao del Norte survived the ambush but he was wounded and brought to a hospital in Iligan City. “They killed my granddaughter,” Manamparan told AFP from his hospital bed, where the 62-year-old official was being treated for a shrapnel wound that grazed his head. The ambush was the latest episode of political violence in the Philippines which will hold elections on May 13. A running police tally lists 30 deaths from 45 other violent incidents reported since the start of the campaign in February.

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