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17 October 2016 Darangina Ditucalan, police chief of Poona Bayabao, Lanao del Sur [327] 5 November 2016 Rolando Espinosa Sr., Mayor of Albuera, Leyte [328] Members of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Region 8: Killed in a police raid on his jail cell. See Death of Rolando Espinosa: 17 November 2016
3 (later released) Verdict. All cases dismissed. The death of Christine Dacera occurred in the early hours of New Year's Day of 2021. Dacera, a 23-year-old flight attendant, was found unconscious in a bathtub in City Garden Grand Hotel, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. Dacera was a flight attendant for PAL Express who was based in Manila ...
On December 20, 2020, a shooting incident occurred in Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines, when a police officer, Jonel Nuezca, fatally shot two of his neighbors, Sonia and Frank Gregorio, after a heated argument over an improvised noisemaker (boga). The victims' relatives and the perpetrator's underage daughter were present at the scene of the crime ...
A pregnant woman and 2 others were killed when a bomb exploded at the Sugni Superstore. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was suspected. [22] 20 February Isabela, Basilan: 1 17 Improvised Explosive Device Three simultaneous bomb attacks by suspected Muslim rebels on police buildings and a restaurant, killing a waiter. [23] 25 February
In accordance with his campaign promise, President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the war on drugs shortly after he took office on June 30, 2016. [9] [10] As of July 26, 2017, the Philippine Information Agency reported 68,000 anti-drug operations which resulted in around 97,000 arrests, 1.3 million surrenders, and around 3,500 drug personalities killed in legitimate police operations. [11]
Legal aspects. According to Philippine laws, terrorism is a crime under the Human Security Act of 2007 which describes such acts as causing "widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace". The first group to be officially listed as a terrorist organization under the law was the Abu Sayyaf on September 10, 2015, by the Basilan ...
The Maguindanao massacre, also known as the Ampatuan massacre, named after the town where mass graves of victims were found, [ 5 ] occurred on the morning of November 23, 2009, in the town of Ampatuan in then-undivided Maguindanao (which is now Maguindanao del Sur) province, on the island of Mindanao. The 58 victims were on their way to file a ...
Philippine extrajudicial killings are politically motivated murders committed by government officers, punished by local and international law or convention.They include assassinations; deaths due to strafing or indiscriminate firing; massacre; summary execution is done if the victim becomes passive before the moment of death (i.e., abduction leading to death); assassination means forthwith or ...