REPORT<\/a>: Nine more killed in Philippine ‘war on drugs’<\/p>\nMANILA: Nine people were killed overnight in the Philippines, authorities said Saturday, as police and suspected anti-drug vigilantes pushed ahead with President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial war on crime.<\/p>\n
Duterte won the May 9 election by a landslide, largely on a pledge to kill tens of thousands of drug dealers and other criminals, and has urged the police, civilians and even insurgents to help in the killings.<\/p>\n
More than 100 suspects have been killed in the seven weeks since Duterte’s election.<\/p>\n
One pre-dawn raid in the town of Matalam, about 900 kilometres south of Manila, left eight “drug personalities” dead on Saturday, including a woman, regional police spokesman Superintendent Romeo Galgo told reporters.<\/p>\n
One other person was arrested on suspicion of drug offences, Galgo said, adding that three pistols and four grenades were found on the dead suspects.<\/p>\n
In Manila, police said they found an unidentified dead man, his entire head wrapped in tape, on a poorly lit road late Friday. His torso was covered with a cardboard sign reading: “I am a Pusher”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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