Deaths in election-related violence rise to 17 — PNP

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 08:15:35 +0000

Deaths in election-related violence rise to 17 -- PNP

Deaths recorded under cases of election-related violence nationwide have climbed to 17 from the initial 14 deaths, PNP said on Saturday.

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2 suspected drug pushers dead in Batangas

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 07:14:06 +0000

SAN PEDRO CITY — Two men tagged in the illegal drugs trade were killed in a police operation in Balayan town in Batangas province on Friday. Police said the slain men Gerry Castillejos, 44, a jeweler, and his companion, Ulyses Pantoja, 39, were named in two search warrants for illegal drugs use and sale. Batangas […]

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Alleged drug group member dead in Batangas; Cavite cop hurt in buy-bust

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:04:27 +0000

SAN PEDRO CITY — An alleged member of an illegal drug syndicate in Batangas province was killed in a police operation in Balayan town, early Friday. Col. Edwin Quilates, Batangas police chief, identified the slain suspect as Dennis Pantoja, an alleged member of the Maamyog Drug Group. The police conducted the buy-bust against Pantoja and […]

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2 alleged drug pushers slain in Lucena buy-busts

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 02:57:24 +0000

LUCENA CITY — Police killed two alleged drug pushers in separate buy-bust operations here Wednesday and Thursday, police said. Francis Jerome Bartolome, 25, a former drug detainee, was about to be arrested after he sold “shabu”(crystal meth) to an undercover police officer inside his motorcycle repair shop in Barangay (village) Isabang at 4:50 p.m. Thursday, […]

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Bishop calls slain Escalante councilor  a ‘martyr,’ seeks end to killings 

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:18:00 +0000

BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN — San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza has called slain human rights activist and Escalante City councilor Bernardino ‘Toto’ Patigas Sr. “a martyr of the sugar workers’ struggles in the island of Negros.”

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Mexico breaks violence record in first quarter of 2019

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 01:06:41 +0000

Mexico breaks violence record in first quarter of 2019

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Violence in Mexico hit new heights in the first quarter of 2019, with 8,493 murders recorded from January to March, according to official figures.

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Unique killings, same language, lawyers say of drug war reports

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:40:24 +0000

The police reports on the killings of suspects in President Duterte’s brutal war on drugs “leave much to be desired,”

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