Philippines police kill 13 suspects in one day during drug raids
by Reuters from World news | The Guardian on (#3JTJE)
Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war continues with more than a dozen deaths on Wednesday after officers fire 'in self defence'
Philippine police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people in dozens of anti-narcotics operations on Wednesday in a province north of the capital, its police chief said.
More than 4,000 Filipinos have been killed by police, and thousands more by unidentified armed men, during President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial 20-month war on drugs. Most killings have been in rundown areas of Manila and the nearby provinces of Bulacan and Cavite.
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