ZAMBOANGA CITY – Police shot dead a man, believed to be high on drugs and who murdered five people, mostly children, in Sirawai town in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Norte, officials said on Sunday.

Officials said Asgal Ontong was killed after he attacked policemen who were trying to arrest him for the brutal killing of a family in the village of Pulang Lupa over the weekend.

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