‘Not one person was killed’

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said police seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs.

On Monday, police seized nearly 1,630kg of methamphetamine from a van and arrested its driver at a checkpoint in Alitagtag town in Batangas province, south of Manila. Intelligence operations were underway to arrest other suspects, officials said without elaborating.