PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday reiterated his call to end mining, saying the practice could no longer continue because it had “created a monster in the country.”

Duterte’s statement came a day after he called on Congress to “abrogate” the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, in response to a landslide that killed dozens of trapped miners in Itogon, Benguet.

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