Skeletons found in Ampatuan properties 02/21/2011

Skeletons found in Ampatuan properties

02/21/2011
Investigators have found two apparent murder victims at properties owned by a Muslim clan accused of the Philippines’ worst political massacre, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday.

Forensics experts found the skeletons in shallow graves last Friday at a grassy field and a corn plantation owned by the Ampatuan family in southern Maguindanao province, De Lima said.

De Lima also said the two were believed to be past murder victims of the Ampatuan clan, which is also accused of carrying out the killings of 57 people in November 2009 in Maguindanao, a poor province they had controlled for a decade.

“We have information as to their identities but we are still validating them before we can announce (their names) officially,” De Lima told AFP..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110221nat2.html