Maguindanao bomb attack hurts 2 Ampatuan clansmen 11/22/2010

Maguindanao bomb attack hurts 2 Ampatuan clansmen

11/22/2010
An estranged member of the powerful Ampatuan clan accused of the country’s worst political massacre was the target of a bomb attack yesterday that wounded two members of the clan, officials said.

Akmad Ampatuan, mayor of Datu Salibo town, also said a bomb that exploded on a roadside in the southern province of Maguindanao, scene of the bloody massacre of 57 persons a year ago, was aimed at him.

The victims were identified as Bai Ling Uy, second wife of Datu Piang Mayor Samer Ampatuan, and a certain Jalandoni Ampatuan. They sustained injuries in the arm and the leg.

Justice Secretary Leila de Lima strongly condemned the bomb attack in Shariff Aguak town in Maguindanao. “(The perpetrators are) simply heartless and evil,” De Lima said in a text message..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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