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The mayor of Ozamiz in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines has been killed in a drug raid:
A mayor who had been accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of involvement in drug trafficking was killed along with his wife and 10 other people in coordinated police raids early Sunday, the authorities said.
Reynaldo Parojinog, mayor of the city of Ozamiz in the southern Philippines, died in a firefight at his home after his security personnel shot at drug enforcement officers, who had come to arrest him and three members of his family, according to the Philippine National Police.
His wife, Susan Parojinog, and five other people were also killed, and a second raid at another house owned by the family left five more people dead, the police said. Mr. Parojinog's daughter, Nova Princess Parojinog-Echavez, the deputy mayor of Ozamiz, was among "scores" of people arrested, according to Ernesto Abella, a spokesman for Mr. Duterte.
The police said they confiscated high-powered rifles, bundles of cash and an unspecified amount of methamphetamines at Mr. Parojinog's home. A police official, Chief Superintendent Timoteo Pacleb, said one officer had been wounded in the firefight but that his life was not in danger.
Also at the The Washington Post, SunStar, BBC, and CNN Philippines.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Monday July 31 2017, @11:06PM
The whole drive of Duterte can be summarized with: "if you're destroying my country, I will destroy you first". The focus is on drugs because it's really a major problem. But he has also told the same thing for instance to mining companies that are destroying the environment, or in general to corrupt government officials who as a result are now reluctant to take bribes. I'm not living there, but I've heard that it's becoming more difficult to grease the system, so his policy seems to be working.