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Nine policemen investigated over
Philippines farm riot killings

MANILA: Nine policemen are being investigated after seven people were shot dead in a riot outside a sprawling farm complex owned by the family of former Philippine president Corazon Aquino, a police spokesman said Friday.

The nine have tested positive for powder burns and are being restricted to police headquarters while investigators look into the riot on Tuesday, police spokesman Senior Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said.

"Appropriate administrative and even criminal charges will be filed if evidence warrants," Bataoil told AFP.

He stressed that the gunpowder tests did not mean they fired their guns on the day when thousands of strikers and sympathizers rioted at the gates of the 6,000-hectare (14,820-acre) Hacienda Luisita near the northern city of Tarlac.

Hundreds of police and military men, backed by armored vehicles, broke up the riot by striking workers of Hacienda Luisita and their sympathizers who were blocking the farm complex’s main gate. Seven among the rioters were killed and dozens injured on both sides.


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