Gov. Zacaria Candao said some of his leaders have also asked that Marines be deployed in some towns where violence is feared to erupt during the May 14 elections.
Three villagers were killed and five others were wounded last Tuesday when Army escorts of a convoy of vehicles carrying politicians allegedly shot it out with armed men along the Cotabato-Isulan Highway in Datu Odin Sinsuat town. — John Unson