A leading member of a powerful political clan was arrested today accused of leading the Philippines election massacre.

A member of a powerful clan and the prime suspect in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan has turned himself in.

Emergency rule was imposed on two Philippine provinces today as security forces found more bodies from one of the worst incidents of election violence in the nation’s history, taking the death toll to 46.

Suspected Muslim guerrillas detonated a bomb near a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern Philippines today, killing at least three people and wounding more than two dozen others.

A home-made bomb planted by suspected Muslim rebels exploded prematurely in a market in the southern Philippines today, killing a would-be attacker and wounding 15 civilians, officials said.

Philippine troops defused a powerful bomb found in a packed bus after the US Embassy warned that terrorists might carry out attacks.

At least 5,000 villagers have fled their homes in nearly a week of sporadic clashes between Muslim guerrillas and pro-government militiamen in the southern Philippines, rebels and officials said today.

A car bomb exploded in a public market in a southern Philippine town early today as a convoy carrying a provincial governor was passing, killing five people and wounding 10 others.

A bomb explosion at a basketball game in the southern Philippines today killed up to 10 people and wounded at least 40 others, including the town mayor, who authorities said was the likely target of the attack.

Nine people were killed in a New Year’s Eve grenade attack in the southern Philippines, including a 14-year-old.

A Christmas Eve bomb attack by suspected Islamic militants has killed at least 13 people in the southern Philippines.

Soldiers have killed at least nine members of a kidnapping gang that seized an Italian missionary and two Chinese engineers in the southern Philippines last year.