Former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan, Sr. – accompanied by visiting relatives – relaxes in a thatched hut during his military detention in 2010 in Davao City Taguig City Mindanao Examiner Photo)
It said Andal Ampatuan, Sr. is suffering from hypertension, diabetes, pneumonia among other diseases, including a heart complication.
The Ampatuan patriarch was among 200 people charged for the killings of mostly journalists covering a political caravan in Maguindanao province in 2009.
His sons and other relatives were also implicated by the police in the mass murders that occurred in his home province where the political clan ruled for decades. The Ampatuans are currently detained at a facility in Taguig City Mindanao Examiner)
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