Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte’s list of top drug suspects is shot dead and his daughter is arrested in the latest crackdown in the country
‘A city mayor and at least 11 others were killed in the Phillipines on Sunday in one of the bloodiest anti-drug assaults so far under President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown.
Reynaldo Parojinog was the third mayor to be killed in the government’s bloody war on illegal drugs.
Parojinog, the mayor of Ozamiz city, was killed during a gun battle with police serving a search warrant at his farm home.
Parojinog’s brother and wife and nine others were killed during the raid when the group reportedly resisted arrest. Parojinog, who also faced corruption charges, had denied any links to illegal drugs.
He was the third mayor to be killed under President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown on narcotics.
Several high-powered firearms and an unspecified amount of methamphetamines were recovered, Timoteo Pacleb, chief of police of Northern Mindanao, told reporters.’
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