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Court Finds Four Philippine Police Guilty In Drug War Killings

Mary Ann Domingo and her younger son hold portraits of her husband and son after four policemen were found guilty of killing them during an anti-drug raid (Credit: AFP)

Four Philippine policemen were found guilty Tuesday of killing a father and son, court officials said, in a rare case of law enforcement officers being prosecuted for taking part in former president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war.

The four low-ranking officers were all sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for the shooting deaths of the two victims at a Manila slum during an anti-drug police operation in 2016, Manila regional trial court judge Rowena Alejandria said in her written verdict that was read in court Tuesday.

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