MANILA: Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' security detail has been put on alert over what his office is calling an "active threat" against his life by Vice-President Sara Duterte. The statement followed an expletive-laced press conference in which Duterte alleged she was the subject of an assassination plot.
"I already talked to a person in my security. I told him if I get killed, kill BBM (Ferdinand Marcos), (first lady) Liza Araneta and (the president's cousin) Martin Romualdez. No joke," Duterte said at a press conference that began after midnight. "I said, if I die, don't stop until you have killed them."
Hours later, the palace communications office said it had referred "this active threat to the Presidential Security Command for immediate proper action". "Any threat to the life of the President must always be taken seriously, more so that this threat has been publicly revealed in clear and certain terms," it said in a statement. — AFP
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