Manila, May 10: Philippine authorities reported 16 new deaths in election-related violence as polling booths opened across the country today, taking the total death toll from the campaign to over 100. Security forces shot dead seven gunmen working as election enforcers for local candidates on the central island of Masbate yesterday, while a campaign worker was gunned down on the island of Cebu, police said.
Two campaign workers were killed in Manila late last night in a grenade attack. A further six campaign workers died in two ambushes in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga Del Norte, local army commander Brigadier General Alexander Yapching said. Bureau Report