The Philippines declared emergency rule and dispatched additional security forces to the southern province of Maguindanao as the death toll in the country's worst election related violence case reached 57. Philippine security forces dug up three vehicles and more bodies. Victims were part of a group who were seized by armed men on 23 November while on their way to file the certificate of candidacy of Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu for Maguindanao governor in elections in May
A mangled vehicle is unearthed from a shallow grave as investigators try to find more bodies
Photograph: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images
The Guardian
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