Maguindanao Massacre Suspect Ampatuan Sr Dead

One of the suspects for the Maguindanao Massacre where 58 individuals were killed is now dead.
Andal Ampatuan Sr. was 74 years old when he died at National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City at 10:02 p.m. last night.

He was in coma since Monday after suffering from heart attack.
Ampatuan Sr. was brought in the hospital on June 5 because of the complications in his liver and his further tests resulted to the detection of a terminal liver cancer.
The former governor of Maguindanao was a known ally to the then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her party, Lakas-Kampi-CMD bloc. It was only the Maguindanao province which brought a 12-0 to the senatorial bets of Arroyo in 2007 elections.
Because he can't run for his fourth term anymore, he groomed his son Andal Jr. to become the next governor of Maguindanao.
But the then Buluan vice-mayor, Esmael "Toto" Mangudadatu challenged them in the 2010 elections to be the next Maguindanao Governor.

The Ampatuans were suspected to be the brain behind the mass killing in Maguindanao last November 23, 2009 where they claimed the lives of 58 people including the wife of Mangudadatu, his two sisters and 34 journalists.