Filipino Mayor Survives Rocket Launcher Assassination Attempt, on Video

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.