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TRIBUNMANADO.CO.ID – A mayor of the Philippines who paraded drug traffickers through the streets of his city was shot dead Monday as he was attending a weekly flag-raising ceremony for government officials.
Reported by Tribunmanado.co.id on the website of Asiaone Tuesday (03/07/2018), the mayor of Antonio Cando Halili was declared dead on his arrival at the hospital with a bullet in his chest
and officials sang a national anthem in Tanauan, a town in Manila province, southwest of Batangas. "We are shocked, we are sad," said deputy mayor Jhoana Villamor, who stood next to Halili after the shooting
. A video of the shootout became viral in social media, showing a shot that was heard when the national anthem was played, and then the crowd shouted. The video was not immediately verified.
The controversial Halili is compared to Duterte because he has openly shared his tough stance on crime and drugs.
He became a technologist to introduce the "shy" parade of suspects But in the year 2017, the name Halili appears on the "list of narco" presented by Duterte, officials suspected to be related to narcotics.
Halili was stripped of police control after the publication of the list, but police claim to have killed more than 4,200 suspected drug traffickers during the war on drugs launched by President Rodrigi Duterte two years ago, a campaign acclaimed by national groups defending human rights and international
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