Suspected Moro militants killed a town mayor and two bodyguards Thursday in a roadside ambush in the southern Philippines, the military said. Mayor Karam Jakila was returning to his town of Al-Barka in Basilan region in a three-car convoy when several men opened fire with assault rifles, killing him and two bodyguards. - AP His four other companions were wounded, marine Lt. Col. Leonard Vincent Teodoro said. It was not clear if the security detail of Jakila, who had received many death threats, managed to return fire, Teodoro said, adding that Moro militants were among the suspects.
