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Filipino Mayor Survives Rocket Launcher Assassination Attempt, on Video
Filipino Mayor
Nearly Voted Out of Office … in Rocket Attack!!!
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Shariff Aguak Municipality via Storyful
The mayor of a small town in the Philippines was attacked by a rocket-propelled grenade in an apparent assassination attempt and lived to tell the tale … and it looks like his armored car saved his life.
Ya gotta see this crazy footage out of Shariff Aguak in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao … a white van stops on the side of the road, two men hop out with a rocket launcher and fire a grenade at the mayor’s Toyota Land Cruiser.
The RPG explodes under the armored car, and a fireball leads to a huge cloud of smoke … but the Toyota is able to drive away to safety!!!
Mayor Akmad Ampatuan survived the attack … but two of his security guards suffered minor abdominal injuries.
The dudes with the rocket launcher fled the scene and got into a shootout with the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Army in a nearby municipality. There were four men in the van, and three died in the shootout … with one still at large.
Incredibly, this was the fourth assassination attempt against Mayor Ampatuan … he’s like President Trump on steroids.