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policeman talking to residents, who admitted to being drug users, at a
police camp, after more than 700 people gave themselves up to policemen
and local government officials in Quezon city, the Philippines, last
Friday.PHOTO: REUTERS
'Death squad' Duterte becomes Philippine President today and he has promised a 'bloody' term
Thousands of drug dealers and addicts across the Philippines are
surrendering to police, as a mayor known for backing extrajudicial
killings of criminals takes office today as the nation's 16th president.
In Bonuan Gueset, a coastal district in Dagupan city, 200km north of
the capital Manila, over 500 confessed...