The stand-off led to the villagers ousting the existing village committee and electing new leaders.
When the rebels ambush a policeman in a village, it is usually the villagers who have their houses shot up and burned in retaliation.
The region's governor, Arturo Uy, said the victims included villagers sheltering in the village hall which was engulfed by the waters.
He said the proposed Graven Hill relief road near the village would make the problem a lot worse and villagers were fighting to prevent it happening.
Elsewhere, Global Times tells of an ongoing "media war" between the Voice of the People newspaper - set up by villagers in Nangaoying in Hebei - and the village authorities' Gaoying Bao.
Spurred on by the efforts being made for the shop, villagers started a parallel process to revamp and rejuvenate the village hall.
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However, with the site up for sale, she said villagers hoped a developer might breathe new life into the village.
In the village there is a granary, which should be used for storing enough maize to allow the villagers to see through the lean months, until the next rainy season.
Webster also strives to empower the local population by training village health workers and educating villagers about HIV prevention, hygiene and sanitation.
According to villagers, county leaders dispatched a team to the village.
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- In the village of Angolo, in Sudan's South Kordofan state, villagers stand over a deadly and illegal weapon.
One Shangpu villager tells Global Times says residents want the village chief to be punished for allegedly hiring "thugs" to rough up villagers protesting against an alleged illegal land grab by local officials and businesses.
Wang Ming Qun, the village's leader, who wears a straw hat and a pink blouse, says villagers are reduced to one meal a day.
Mr Wen may not be to blame, but some village officials have used the campaign as an excuse to order the demolition of old houses and require villagers to borrow money to pay for new ones.
One of the villagers in Mpala told Eden how excited she was to have electricity in her village for the first time, and that she dreamed of no longer needing to forage for firewood at the end of a long work day.
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Villagers say the pub dates back to 1779 and was the only one in the village.
Before the protest, a 33-year-old resident of Hongxiao village identified only as Sun posted a comment on the Internet saying that the latest health examination of the villagers showed that among 3, 300 people, six were diagnosed as having leukemia and another 31 had other kinds of cancer.
For example, travellers can take part in Maasai village tours in Kenya, where nearly all of the tour fees once went to outside guides instead of the villagers.
The shooter was assigned to a small Special Operations Forces detachment working on so-called village-stability operations, a plan to raise local self-defense forces to protect Afghan villagers from the Taliban, a military official said.
Elected village leader Lin Zuluan earlier told Shanghai's Dragon TV that he regrets taking part in the campaign and says the villagers' expectations of reclaiming their land are too high.
Nowadays, villagers often have their own, separate houses, but the longhouse is still the nucleus of the village, where ceremonies and celebrations take place and prayers are made at the spirit altar.
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