MARAWI CITY—Amid a raging controversy over a proposed peace deal seeking to end a separatist war in Mindanao, Moro rebels Sunday ambushed an Army convoy in Lanao del Sur, killing seven people and wounding 12 in what the military denounced as a “treacherous attack.”
The Army team, composed of soldiers and paramilitary forces, were carrying salaries and allowances intended for distribution to militiamen when about 100 rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) attacked them with 60-cal. machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other high-powered guns, officials said.
