The World - News from March 28, 1988

Suspected Communist gunmen in the Philippines killed seven people in an ambush of a convoy carrying the mayor of a Manila suburb. Police said Prospero Oreta, mayor of Malabon and a distant relative by marriage of President Corazon Aquino, was wounded when gunmen opened fire on his two-car convoy. At least seven men traveling with Oreta were killed, including two soldiers, a policeman, an aide to the mayor and a driver. Police blamed the attack on the Communist New People’s Army, which on Tuesday will mark its founding 19 years ago. Military units were ordered on alert around the country.