Philippine mayor wounded, 2 killed in rebel ambush
Mayor Ruth Guingona of southern Ginoog City suffered abrasions from late Saturday's attack.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Officials say communist rebels ambushed the convoy of a city mayor and wife of the Philippines former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr, killing two of her aides and wounding a police escort.
Chief Supt. Generoso Cerbo, the national police spokesman, said Sunday that Mayor Ruth Guingona of southern Ginoog City suffered abrasions from late Saturday s attack and that she and the wounded policeman were out of danger. A regional police report says Guingona was hit in her lower right knee.
The report says Guingona s group was traveling late Saturday after attending a beauty pageant in a hinterland village of Ginoog when communist rebels manning a road block fired at her vehicle, causing it to overturn. The rebels and Guingona s six police escorts then traded shots before the rebels fled.
