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Chinese drug lord killed in Philippine prison fight, 8 inmates injured
By dailysabah.com- Anadolu Agency
Published: 09/28/2016

Philippine officials said a notorious Chinese drug lord was killed Wednesday after violence broke out among inmates at the national prison, injuring four others -- among them a convict sought as a witness in a Senate inquiry into a bloody crackdown on illegal drugs.

Local media reported that Tony Co, among the inmates tagged by President Rodrigo Duterte as running a drug dealing business from inside the National Bilibid Prison, was killed in a stabbing spree that reportedly broke out when a convicted former police major reprimanded others for using drugs.

Among those injured were two others on Duterte's drug list -- Peter Co and Vicente Sy -- and Jaybee Sebastian, who officials have sought to have testify against Duterte critic Senator Leila de Lima.

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