Gunfire outside a Cotabato City polling school killed three people on the eve of Bangsamoro parliamentary voting. [1] GMA filed three dead and six wounded in a clash over a school queue. [1] Print three. Do not invent a cancelled election. Leave Monday's four to Monday.

A queue fight is not a stolen parliament. Voting still sits on the calendar. Leave a named Monday BARMM table to Monday. Print three. Print not a cancelled vote.

Print three. Sunday is not a cancelled BARMM. Six wounded is still not three dead. Print three as Sunday's named Cotabato hold. A schoolyard queue is still not a parliament. Print three as still the named toll. Print the eve as still not Monday's polls. Ledger entries accumulate; Sunday's is latest.

Election-eve violence in Cotabato has a grim lineage stretching back decades. Security plans assume it; voters brave it. Sunday's three are the latest entry in that ledger.

Latest entries date the ledger; Sunday's dates it. Dating is the update. Monday's polls open next.

Sunday's three are the latest ledger entry. Monday's polls are Monday's. Not four. Voters brave a grim lineage.

Three dead and six wounded is still the schoolyard toll in Cotabato. Bangsamoro voting remains on Monday's calendar, not scratched. Gunfire over a school queue does not steal a parliament. Sunday's named count is three, not four.
Three dead and six wounded is still the schoolyard toll. Bangsamoro voting remains Monday's calendar. Sunday's named count is three, not four.

Bangsamoro voting remains Monday's calendar. Sunday's named count is three, not four. Sunday's named count is three, not Monday's four.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing