THE death toll on suspected drug personalities since President Rodrigo Duterte was elected in 2016 has risen to 5,176, according to the latest update of Real Numbers PH.

The number is from the 119,841 operations that had been conducted since July 2016 and includes the 72 that were killed in January.

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