COTABATO CITY, Philippines — Shariff Aguak Vice Mayor Akmad Ampatuan and two of his security escorts were wounded in an ambush at noon on Tuesday.
Ampatuan and his two companions were in a red Toyota Innove when gunmen shot at them with assault rifles along a busy thoroughfare in Shariff Aguak, where Ampatuan is a second-term vice mayor.
All three of were immediately rushed to the nearby Maguindanao Provincial Hospital in the same town.