MANILA: Eight out of 10 Filipinos worry they or someone they know might become a victim of extrajudicial killings, an opinion poll published found, although a majority also gave President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war an “excellent” rating.
More than 2,000 people have been killed by police in anti-narcotics operations in the Philippines since Duterte took office on July 1. Another 3,000 deaths, some attributed to masked men on motorcycles or vigilantes, are under investigation.
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