Jimji Bolasa (6) cries before funeral parlor workers remove the body of her father, Jimboy, who was found dead after being abducted by unidentified men. Bolasa and a neighbor were abducted, and their bodies discovered under a bridge around an hour later, with gunshot wounds and showing signs of torture. Police allege the men were drug dealers, while neighbors say Bolasa had already given himself in.

Investigators examine the scene after Romeo Joel Torres Fontanilla was killed by unknown gunmen riding motorcycles.

Crime-scene investigators gather evidence after Frederick Mafe and Arjay Lumbago were gunned down by unidentified motorcyclists in Manila.

Crime-scene investigators conduct an investigation into the death of Michael Araja, an alleged drug user, who was gunned down in front of a local convenience kiosk while buying cigarettes for his wife.

Inmates look on as drug suspects are processed at a Manila police station.

Inmates sleep on a basketball court in Quezon City Jail. The prison, which was built to house 800, has 3,800 inmates and men have to sleep where they can find space.

Police in Manila collate a report on a sting operation against Ronald Kalau, which left him dead. Police claim Kalau drew a 0.38-caliber handgun when he sensed something was wrong with the alleged purchase of methamphetamine, and the police gunned him down.

Funeral-parlor workers carry away the body of Edwin Mendoza Alon-Alon, who was killed by an unknown gunman on the road in front of a 7-Eleven store in Manila.

The blood of Florjohn Cruz stains the floor in his family home, where he was shot by police while fixing a radio for his mother. Police left a cardboard sign at the scene calling Cruz ‘a pusher and an addict’. Cruz had given himself in to police months earlier, admitting to drug addiction and promising to put an end to his habit, under a government amnesty program.

The body of Erika Angel Fernandez lies in the street after being gunned down (together with Jericho Camitan) by masked men in the early hours of the morning,  in Quezon City.

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