Philippines asks Japan's help searching lake for missing cockfighters


MANILA: The Philippines' justice secretary said Friday (July 4) he has asked for Japan's technical assistance to help the search for dozens of cockfighting participants allegedly killed by rogue police and dumped in a lake south of Manila.

The case is tied to a spate of mysterious disappearances in 2022 in the South-East Asian nation's huge cockfighting industry, known locally as "sabong".

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