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Philippines imposes martial law in massacre province

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-12-05 16:15

Philippines imposes martial law in massacre province

Police investigators display weapons found buried near the residential complex of the Ampatuan clan in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao province, southern Philippines December 3, 2009. On Thursday, soldiers unearthed a large cache of weapons, including five mortars, four machineguns, three anti-tank bazookas, assault rifles, a 50-caliber sniper gun and hundreds of boxes of bullets from a vacant lot about 500 metres from the Ampatuans' residential complex. [Agencies]