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Drug-related killings have surged in the Philippines as the country, led by a tough-on-crime new president, grapples with "shabu", a potent, crystalline form of methamphetamine.
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A drug fanatic uses a glass water funnel to smoke shabu, or methamphetamine, at an undisclosed medication lair in Manila, Philippines, June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Staff
Jennelyn Olaires, 26, supports the body of her accomplice, who was slaughtered on a road by a vigilante bunch, as indicated by police, in a spate of medication related killings in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines July 23, 2016. A sign on a cardboard found close to the body peruses: "Pusher Ako", which means "I am a medication pusher." REUTERS/Czar Dancel
Residents transport on a trolley two assortments of men, after police said they were slaughtered by policemen after they battled back amid an unlawful medications "Shabu" (Meth) operation in Manila, Philippines August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan
A individual from the Philippine National Police (PNP) examination unit indicates reallocated methamphetamine, referred to locally as Shabu, alongside Philippines pesos seized from suspected medication pushers amid an operation by the police in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
The body of a man is imagined with a weapon under his hand, whom police said was executed amid a medication bust operation on "Shabu" (Meth), in Manila, Philippines, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan
A Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) specialist looks on as a laborer places sacks of illicit methamphetamine hydrochloride, referred to locally as "shabu", inside a chamber for transfer through the procedure of warm decay at a waste administration focus in Trece Martires city, Cavite territory, south of Manila November 11, 2014. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
An Police Intelligence Officer (R) holds an appropriated gun amid an assault searching for guns and unlawful medications "shabu" in a ghetto region in Metro Manila, Philippines May 28, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Philippine National Police Scene of the Crime Operations officers review 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, known as Shabu, worth around 50 million pesos, found in a surrendered vehicle on a scaffold in metro Manila, Philippines June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Relatives of killed individuals promise at a Senate listening to exploring drug-related killings at the Senate central command in Pasay city, metro Manila, Philippines August 22, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Residents included with unlawful medications sit tight for individual surrenderees before taking a vow that they won't utilize or offer "Shabu" (Meth) again in the wake of surrendering to police and government authorities in Makati, metro Manila, Philippines, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Funeral specialists convey the collection of one of the five suspected medication pushers executed in a police operation in Quiapo city, metro Manila, Philippines July 3, 2016. REUTERS/Czar Dancel
A National Bureau of Investigation specialist utilizes a metal processor to open a vault that contained medications and around 7 million pesos in real money amid a strike at the home of a cop and individual from the medications unit in metro Manila, Philippines May 25, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Director General Ronald Dela Rosa and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Director General Isidro Lapena (R), showcase to the individuals from the media plastic packs loaded with methamphetamine hydrochloride, privately known as Shabu, amid the decimation of seized illicit medications at a waste administration office in Trece Martires town, Cavite, south of Manila July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
A inhabitant required with medications is envisioned with an informal ID on his shirt before taking a vow that he won't utilize or offer "Shabu" (Meth) again in the wake of surrendering to the police and government authorities in Makati, metro Manila, Philippines, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
Residents included with illicit medications vow that they won't utilize or offer "Shabu" (Meth) again in the wake of surrendering to the police and government authorities in Makati, metro Manila, Philippines, August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro
A pack of a methamphetamine, known as shabu, is appeared by a National Bureau of Investigation operator after an assault on the home of a cop and individual from the counter medications unit in metro Manila, Philippines May 25, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Sachets of shabu, or methamphetamine (center lower part), is imagined among different medications gear at an undisclosed medication cave in Manila, Philippines June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Staff
Members of the research facility administration from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) test tests of the methamphetamine hydrochloride, privately alluded as Shabu, amid the decimation of seized unlawful medications at a waste administration office in Trece Martires town, Cavite, south of Manila July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
Relatives sob on the body of a man, after police said, he got slaughtered by policemen amid a medication bust operation on illicit medications "Shabu" (Meth) in Manila, Philippines August 18, 2016. REUTERS/Ezra Acayan
Members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) blaze somewhere in the range of 6.9 million pesos ($147,059) worth of pot and shabu (otherwise called methamphetamine) in Camp Bado Dangwa, La Trinidad, Benguet, north of Manila November 6, 2015. REUTERS/Harley Palangchao