DAVAO CITY: Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has punched back at Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, challenging her to file a case against him over his supposed ties to a “death squad” allegedly responsible for the summary executions of around 1,000 suspected criminals in the city, many of them minors.

“I want her to personally file a case against me,” an incensed Duterte told journalists as he called de Lima “the Aquino administration’s barking dog.”

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