PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will not hesitate to blow up an illegal structure on Boracay Island if needed, Malacañang said on Thursday.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. made the statement in a news briefing following the appeal of Crisostomo Aquino, owner of West Cove in Boracay, against the government’s decision to cancel the property’s forest-land use agreement for tourism purposes.

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