GUNMEN blocked a group of motorcycle riders and then opened fire with assault rifles in a busy downtown area, killing nine people, police said, in the latest violence to roil the volatile region.
Police officials said the attack on the victims, who were mostly farmers, at noon on Saturday in Kabacan town in the southern province of Cotabato, may have been sparked by a local feud and was likely not an act of terrorism.
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