MANILA: Philippine police opened fire as a protest by thousands of rice farmers who lost their crops turned violent killing at least two and wounding about a dozen, a leader of a farming group said.
About 6,000 farmers blocked a portion of the main highway in North Cotabato province on the southern island of Mindanao yesterday, demanding government assistance after drought linked by some to El Nino hit hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland.
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