MORE troops arrived Wednesday in Maguindanao province to deter potential violence in the run-up to the midterm elections on May 12.

The deployment of soldiers from the 48th Infantry Battalion and the Army's Armor Division's 1st Armor Company was made after incidents in four towns in Maguindanao that killed a couple and wounded a provincial board member candidate and his driver.

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