AMPATUAN, Philippines -- President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo placed two southern provinces under emergency rule yesterday as security forces found more bodies, pushing the death toll to 46 in some of the deadliest election violence in the nation's history.
Police and soldiers found 22 bodies in a hillside mass grave yesterday, adding to the 24 bullet-riddled bodies found near Monday's massacre in MaguinÂdanao province, Chief Superintendent Josefino Cataluna of the Central Mindanao region said.
The southern region of the Philippines is wracked by violent political rivalries, in addition to a long-running Islamic insurgency.
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