POLICE KILL 13 IN A DAY OF DRUG BUSTS

Police killed 13 suspected drug dealers and arrested more than 100 people on Wednesday in dozens of antinarcotics operations in Bulacan, the chief of the provincial police said.

Police ran about 60 drugs “buy-bust” operations in nine towns, Senior Supt. Romeo Caramat said on Thursday.

Bulacan is where 32 people were killed in a single day in August last year. Last month, 10 more drug suspects died in drug busts.

“Unfortunately, 13 of the suspects were killed when our officers fired in self-defence shortly after the suspects, who were armed with concealed guns, sensed they were being entrapped and started firing,” Caramat said.

More than 100 people were also arrested and 19 firearms and about 250 packets of suspected “shabu” (crystal meth) were seized during the 24-hour operations, Caramat said.