Policemen killed a three-year-old girl in a drug raid on the Philippines. According to the police, the child was caught in a shoot-out between alleged drug dealers and police officers on Sunday (local time). In the raid on the city of Rodriguez east of the capital, Manila, two suspected drug dealers and a plainclothes cop died.
The police said the father of the three-year-old had opened the fire on the security forces while holding his daughter as a shield in front of him. The mother of the child denied that.
Senator Ronald Dela Rosa described the child’s death as „collateral damage“. „Shit happens,“ he said today to journalists and journalists. In the course of the investigation of the incidents, 20 police officers were suspended from their duties.
In the war on drugs that President Rodrigo Duterte proclaimed after his election in 2016, more than 6,600 people have already been killed, according to official figures.
