A Quezon City court hearing the Maguindanao massacre case has junked for lack of merit the petitions of two members of the Ampatuan political clan to expel them from the list of suspects in the gruesome crime.

The two—Akmad “Tato” Ampatuan and Sajid Islam Ampatuan—have yet to be arraigned for the multiple murder case.

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