Across the World: Philippines

Ammo stash seized

Philippine soldiers using metal detectors, sniffer dogs and an excavator dug up more than a dozen crates of bullets on Friday in the mansion of a local mayor linked to last week's massacre of 57 people, a spokesman said.

Hundreds of army and combat-trained police units searched houses belonging to local mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr., main suspect in the country's worst election-related violence, and his father.