Gunbattle Takes Place Between Police And Criminals In Atimonan, Philippines

In this photo released by the Philippine National Police Quezon Provincial Director’s Office, police officers gather evidence as bodies of suspected criminals lay on the road after a shootout with army and police at a checkpoint along a road in the town of Atimonan in Quezon province, about 140 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Manila, Philippines Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. Philippine army special forces and police killed 13 suspected criminals in the gunbattle Sunday in the latest violence to erupt in the country in the past week.

In this photo released by the Philippine National Police Quezon Provincial Director’s Office, Quezon provincial police chief Valeriano de Leon, left, visits a wounded policeman after a shootout with suspected criminals at a checkpoint along a road in the town of Atimonan in Quezon province, about 140 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Manila, in the Philippines Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013. <AP/NEWSis/Philippine National Police Quezon Provincial Director’s Office>