AMPATUAN, MAGUINDANAO—A few kilometers off the main highway, on a remote hilltop covered with waist-high grass, bodies lay with twisted hands reaching in the air. They had been shot point-blank.
Nearby, cadavers were being laid out under banana leaves on Tuesday as police—their faces covered against the stench—unearthed a mass grave containing 22 victims from Monday’s ambush on an election caravan.
The discovery brought the death toll to 46—an unprecedented act of violence at the outset of the country’s election season. This climbed to 57 on Wednesday after two more 15-foot deep mass graves yielded 11 bodies. More of the Maguindanao massacre update story here.
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