PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte vowed to ban two United States lawmakers from entering the country over their criticisms on drug-related extrajudicial killings in the country.

The President was referring to Senators Randy Hultgren and James P. McGovern, co-chairmen of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, who urged US President Donald Trump to "impress upon President Duterte the United States’ profound concern over reported extrajudicial killings associated with the Philippine government’s war on drugs", and that the fact that about 7,000 people have been killed during the campaign was distressing.

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