{"id":1480,"date":"2026-03-06T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:25:30","slug":"%e2%80%bc%ef%b8%8f%e2%80%bc%ef%b8%8ffilipino-mayor-unharmed-after-apparent-rpg-attack-on-car-in-broad-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"\u203c\ufe0f\u203c\ufe0fFilipino mayor unharmed after apparent RPG attack on car in broad daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8226-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8226-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8226-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8226-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8226.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A\u00a0Filipino mayor\u00a0escaped 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Philippine News Agency (PNA), the country\u2019s state-run news outlet,\u00a0<u>reported that<\/u>\u00a0Mayor Akmad Ampatuan was inside a bulletproof vehicle when the attack occurred at around 6:30 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the men then\u00a0lowers the launcher\u00a0and aims it down the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8227-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8227-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8227-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8227-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8227.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He fires the weapon before jumping back into the vehicle, moments before a black SUV turns onto the road and is\u00a0struck by the blast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PNA reported that the mayor\u2019s backup vehicle, a pickup, was also hit by gunfire during the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The motive for the attack was not immediately known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mayor is safe,&#8221; Anwar Kuit Emblawa, the mayor\u2019s executive assistant, told the PNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two members of Ampatuan\u2019s\u00a0security detail\u00a0were injured, though their wounds were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The outlet said the mayor has survived two previous assassination attempts in the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"686\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8229.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8229.webp 686w, https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8229-300x168.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Filipino mayor\u00a0escaped 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.\u00a0 The Philippine News &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.landingliker.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}