Guards shot dead at polling station

– Three security guards were killed yesterday when gunmen opened fire at a polling station in a restive southern region of the Philippines, police said, as millions of Filipinos voted in national elections.

The deadly shooting happened shortly after voting got underway in Buluan municipality on Mindanao island, a haven for multiple armed groups, ranging from the private armies of warlord-politicians to communist insurgents and Islamist militants. –