Manila,
\nPhilippine police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people in dozens of anti-narcotics operations on Wednesday in a province north of the capital, its police chief said.<\/p>\n
More than 4,000 Filipinos have been killed by police during President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s controversial 20-month-old war on drugs, and thousands more by unidentified armed men. Most killings have been in rundown areas of Metro Manila and the nearby provinces of Bulacan and Cavite.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups and Duterte\u2019s political opponents say executions of drug users and small-time peddlers are widespread, but police insist those killed were all dealers who put up violent resistance.<\/p>\n
Police in Bulacan ran about 60 drugs \u201cbuy-bust\u201d, or sting, operations in nine towns, the police chief said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Bulacan is where 32 people were killed in a single day in August last year. Last month, an additional 10 drug suspects died in a bloody night of drug busts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese operations are part of our stepped-up campaign against drugs and all other forms of criminality in the province,\u201d Bulacan police chief Romeo Caramat said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, 13 of the suspects were killed when our officers fired in self-defence shortly after the suspects who were armed with concealed guns sensed they were being entrapped and started firing.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than 100 people were also arrested and 19 firearms and about 250 packets of suspected drugs were seized during the 24-hour operations, Caramat said.<\/p>\n
Last month, a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague opened a preliminary examination into a complaint accusing Duterte and at least 11 officials of crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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