From Fox News: A Filipino mayor escaped unharmed after an apparent rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) attack on his convoy in broad daylight Sunday in the southern province of Maguindanao del Sur, authorities said.
The Philippine News Agency (PNA), the country’s state-run news outlet, reported that Mayor Akmad Ampatuan was inside a bulletproof vehicle when the attack occurred at around 6:30 a.m.
Video of the incident shows two men stepping out of a white van, one holding what appears to be an RPG and another carrying a gun.
One of the men then lowers the launcher and aims it down the street.
The men fired at the mayor’s vehicle, then jumped back into their vehicle.
A black SUV and the mayor’s backup vehicle were hit by gunfire during the attack.
The motive is not known.
“The mayor is safe,” Anwar Kuit Emblawa, executive assistant to the mayor, told the press.
Two of Ampatuan’s security detail were injured, but the injuries were not fatal.
Three of the suspects were reportedly killed in a joint military-police team, and one of the suspects is still at large.
According to PNA, the mayor survived two other assassination attempts in five years.
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