Policemen stand behind a police line after a man was killed during a police anti-drug operation in Caloocan city, Metro Manila, Philippines August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines police came under pressure on Friday to explain the killing of a high-school student after the 17-year-old became one of at least 91 people shot dead this week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte's ruthless war on drugs.
Television channels aired CCTV footage that showed Kian Loyd Delos Santos being carried by two men to a place where his body was later found, raising doubt about an official report that said he was shot because he fired at police officers first.
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