The Philippine government should investigate an alleged “death squad” implicated in several hundred killings in Tagum City in Mindanao, said New York-based group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a statement.

The group said official records it obtained show 298 killings between January 2007 and March 2013 that provincial police attributed to the “Tagum Death Squad,” and for which no one has been prosecuted.

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