Father of former Miss World Philippines latest victim in Duterte’s war on drugs – Telegraph.co.uk

Ms Parungao, a TV presenter who was crowned Miss World Philippines in 2015, wrote a grief-ridden tribute to her father, who she credited with launching her modelling career as he used to ask for her photos when he was working in Taiwan.

As a child she followed him everywhere on his rare visits home and she once found him crying in the garden.

My first memory of my dadA man in his denim jeans and white t-shirt. Bubbly, full of life and love, hurting and sobbing, she wrote. As I sit watching him now sleeping still, I told him, Dad, you will never be hurt anymore.

According to a police report seen by the Philippine Star, her father grabbed the gun of his police escort who had uncuffed him when he complained of chest pains.

It fits a pattern of reports where thousands of drugs suspects have allegedly been killed fighting arrest in encounters with police, or while reaching for guns in custody.

Thousands more have been murdered in unsolved vigilante-style executions that have drawn international condemnation since Duterte was elected last summer, pledging to kill criminals in a crackdown on drugs crimes.

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