Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte: What's he accused of?
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Manila, the Philippines (CNN)Two-hundred bullets fired into an official. A corpse-eating crocodile. A billionaire killed in a lover's tiff.
They're just some of the shocking allegations made by self-professed hitman Edgar Matobato before a Senate Inquiry into extrajudicial killings in the Philippines Thursday.
Matabato claims he was part of a death squad run on the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte while he was still mayor of Davao City.
Duterte's office denies the claims.
The uzi
Matobato said a gunfight erupted after he and another member of the death squad got in an argument with a man named Amisola, an official with the country's National Bureau of Investigation.
"He wasn't killed instantly. But eventually, he ran out of bullets," Matobato said. "We then cornered him, but it was Mayor Duterte who finished him off. Mayor Duterte arrived to kill Amisola."
Duterte unloaded two magazines of an Uzi submachine gun on Amisola, according to Matobato.
"He must have finished 200 bullets," Matobato said.
The 1,000-plus
More than 1,000 people were killed by the death squad in Davao City while Duterte was mayor from 1988 until 2013, Matobato said.
They were killed by the Davao Death Squad, he said. It began as a smaller "liquidation squad" with seven people, including Matobato, but then grew in 1993 to include police members and eventually reached a membership of 300 strong.
Matobato said he personally killed about 50 people.
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