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EPA/ROLEX DELA PENA

A Philippine police operative takes fingerprints from one of several dead bodies dug up along a hillside in Datu Ampatuan, Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines, 24 November 2009. The Philippines declared emergency rule and dispatched additional security forces to a southern province where gunmen killed at least 24 people in the worst-ever election-related violence in the country. The victims were part of a group of about 40 people who were seized by about 100 gunmen on their way to file the certificate of candidacy of Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu for Maguindanao governor in elections in May.