Portfolio: Violence and elections

Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao Philippines.Noria Gonzagon Samal (46) wife of the killed driver  cries while holds two minor children.Dozen of supporters of the Liberal party candidate for mayor Willson Nandang where heading to campaign rally when group of armed men in bonnets ordered supporters to leave the scene while they killed a driver, Abubakar Padino Somal (47) was killed in Nuburan village, Langapod municipality.Intimidation, harassment and killing of the supporters of the political rivals in Mindanao are increasing amid impending presidential and general elections in Philippines. Political dynasties of powerful clans in Mindanao, southern restive province of Philippines, continue to use private armies to intimidate supporters of the rival candidates.
Violence and elections

Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao Philippines. 

Noria Gonzagon Samal (46) wife of the killed driver cries while holds two minor children. 

Dozen of supporters of the Liberal party candidate for mayor Willson Nandang where heading to campaign rally when group of armed men in bonnets ordered supporters to leave the scene while they killed a driver, Abubakar Padino Somal (47) was killed in Nuburan village, Langapod municipality. 

Intimidation, harassment and killing of the supporters of the political rivals in Mindanao are increasing amid impending presidential and general elections in Philippines. Political dynasties of powerful clans in Mindanao, southern restive province of Philippines, continue to use private armies to intimidate supporters of the rival candidates.