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'I WILL KILL MORE'

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to use ARMY to kill more ‘son of a b****’ drug dealers – as he can’t trust corrupt police death squads

GUNG-ho Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to kill even more “son of a bitch” drug dealers.

Duterte is waging a bloody crackdown on his country’s drug pushers but earlier this week labelled his police death squads "corrupt to the core".

Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to step up his bloody war on the Philippines' drug dealers
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Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to step up his bloody war on the Philippines' drug dealersCredit: Reuters
Thousands of suspected dealers have been locked up during the course of the seven month war on drugs
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Thousands of suspected dealers have been locked up during the course of the seven month war on drugsCredit: Getty Images
But many more have been gunned down. Here, a suspected dealer lies dead in the street after being murdered
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But many more have been gunned down. Here, a suspected dealer lies dead in the street after being murderedCredit: Getty Images

And today he stepped up the street war with the announcement the army would now lead the charge.

A fiery Duterte roared: “I'm taking in [army] and raising the issue of drugs as a national security threat so that I will call on all the armed forces to assist.

"And you bleed for those son of a bitches.

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";I will kill more. If only to get rid of drugs."

His comments come despite increasing pressure for the firebrand Filipino premier to rein in his drug battle.

More than 6,500 people have been gunned down on the streets in just seven months with horrifying images of mutilated bodies lying in the streets.

Duterte has even admitted to throwing a suspected murderer from a helicopter in the past.

The bodies of victims are left motionless in the street following the execution-style killings
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The bodies of victims are left motionless in the street following the execution-style killingsCredit: Getty Images
Ordinary Filipinos are left the watch on as the terror ravages the streets of their country
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Ordinary Filipinos are left the watch on as the terror ravages the streets of their countryCredit: Getty Images
But Duterte says the killings will continue until he eradicates the problem of drugs
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But Duterte says the killings will continue until he eradicates the problem of drugsCredit: EPA

But the war went tragically wrong last week when a South Korean businessman was killed by Filipino police in a case of mistaken identity.

Allegations have also emerged that some victims of the campaign have been as young as EIGHT.

A spokesperson for Amnesty International warned: "The police are behaving like the criminal underworld that they are supposed to be enforcing the law against.”

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