The Buzz | Villager in southern Philippines kills 4 in dowry feud

A distraught villager shot and killed his father-­in-law and three children yesterday over a dowry feud in the southern Philippines. The attack happened after midnight in the remote town of Banguigui in Sulu province, a group of islands in the country’s southernmost region, police said.
The attacker was abandoned by his wife, prompting him to demand that her family return the dowry he had given her parents, but the parents failed to immediately comply. The attacker and two other gunmen escaped.
Clan feuds have often turned violent in Sulu, where poverty, large numbers of unlicensed firearms and weak law enforcement have combined to foster lawlessness and a decades-long Muslim rebellion.