VOL. XXX NO. 148 3 Sections 24 Pages P18 SUNDAY : JULY 10, 2016 www.thestandard.com.ph editorial@thestandard.com.ph
THIS TIME, HEAT IS ON ‘NARCO POLS’
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8 MORE KILLED IN WAR ON DRUGS
2,856 suspects give up, stir fears of jail congestion By Francisco Tuyay
EIGHT more suspected narcotics dealers were killed in a gun fight with drug enforcers who swooped down on their hideout in Matalam, Cotabato before dawn Saturday. In a report reaching the Philippine National Police’s Camp Crame headquarters, the police said re-
gional police units and agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency raided the suspects’ hideout
in Barangay Poblacion around 2:30 a.m. on the strength of duly-issued search warrant. But the suspects—identified as Tainko Lamping, Bolao Palti, Haron Lamping Mamakan, Abudzaid Runas, Tahir Kasan Salipudin; Mustapha Tausi, Mangapan Mama Musa and Jobaina Lumantag—fired on the policemen resulting in the gun fight. All of the suspects, who are
also believed to be involved in car thefts and robberies in the area, were killed except for a certain Aratok Iba Balabagan, who is now undergoing tactical interrogation at the Matalam police station. Recovered from the scene of the fighting were one cal. 45 pistol, a 9mm pistol, one cal. 38 pistol, four hand grenades, five sachets of shabu and assorted drug paraphernalia.
The killing of the eight suspects brings to 10 the number of suspected drug dealers slain in just seven days after two other drug suspects were shot dead in an antidrug operation in Dinalupihan, Bataan. Meanwhile, more confessed drug users and petty pushers continued to surrender to the police for fear of being slain in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive. Next page
HARD LESSONS. After being rounded up in Quezon City for various offenses, 93 people receive a public dressing down from newly installed Quezon City Police District Director Senior Supt. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar at Camp Karingal. MANNY PALMERO
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YASAY HEMS AND HAWS ON SEA ROW By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan FOREIGN Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay clarified his reported statement that the country is willing to share with China resources from the contested West Philippine Sea even if the Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in the Philippines’ favor.
“What I said is we have to wait for the ruling and study and dissect its implication,” Yasay said in a statement released on Saturday amid criticism of his supposed statement that he is ready to negotiate with China on joint exploration of oil and fishery resources in the disputed area. Yasay issued the clarification amid reports that China has begun military
drills in the South China Sea with the navy carrying out combat exercises with live missiles in the area between the Paracels and the southern Chinese island of Hainan. Despite the Chinese muscle flexing, however, an international jurist said a PCA ruling favorable to the Philippines would be a “game changer” in Next page