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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Karen Lema

Philippine family allowed to correct death certificate of son killed in drugs war

Rodrigo Baylon, the father of drug war victim Lenin Baylon, speaks during a news conference after an appeals court granted his petition to correct the death certificate of his nine-year-old son who was killed in a drug-related shooting in 2016, at the Commission on Human Rights in Quezon City, Philippines, December 5, 2022. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

A Philippine appeals court granted a father's petition to correct the death certificate of his nine-year old son, bringing to a close his years-long quest for justice for the boy who was killed in a drug-related shooting.

Rodrigo Baylon's son, Lenin, was killed by stray bullets on Dec. 2, 2016, in Caloocan City in a shooting that also killed two women, according to a police report. But Lenin's death certificate had said he died from bronchopneumonia.

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