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Fewer violent incidents in 2013 tho casualty count close to 2010

By VERA Files  More than a hundred supporters block the police from serving a search warrant at the residence of Senator Bong Revilla in Bacoor, Cavite. FEWER incidents of election violence this year compared to previous years have prompted the Philippine National Police to declare the May 2013 election more peaceful, but the casualty count

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May 15, 2013

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More than a hundred supporters block the police from serving a search warrant at the residence of Senator Bong Revilla in Bacoor, Cavite.
More than a hundred supporters block the police from serving a search warrant at the residence of Senator Bong Revilla in Bacoor, Cavite.

FEWER incidents of election violence this year compared to previous years have prompted the Philippine National Police to declare the May 2013 election more peaceful, but the casualty count this year actually does not differ much from the 2010 national and local elections.

The PNP reported 81 incidents that ranged from shootings, ambushes, explosions and strafing in the four-month period from January 13 to May 13. Sixty-seven of those were shooting incidents.

A total of 51 persons were killed and 65 were wounded while 33 went missing from those incidents. More than half of those killed were local politicians.

Read more in Vote 2013.

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