MARAWI CITY: Cooler heads invoking the Ramadan-ordained building of peace and amity have pacified protagonists in a family feud or “rido” that flared on Friday and left 10 persons dead, five others wounded and some 50 families displaced in Bayang, Lanao del Sur.

“Alhamdulillah [Praise Allah], the warring families calmed down amid combined efforts of cooler heads for sabr [patience] propounded in Islamic brotherhood and as prescribed especially during Ramadan,” Bayang town Mayor Sahroden “Maya” Ampatua told reporters by phone Sunday in vernacular.

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