Evacuees displace kids from classrooms amid clashes in Maguindanao

COTABATO CITY, BARMM, Philippines — Aside from floods that submerged several towns in the Maguindanao provinces in the previous weeks, recent skirmishes that displaced 3,000 people in four villages in Datu Odin Sinsuat town in Maguindanao del Norte also prevented students from returning to school on Monday for the opening of classes. Minister Mohagher Iqbal