The vice president of the Philippines appeared to threaten to have the country’s president and two other high-profile persons killed if she herself were killed, prompting responses from the president’s office and security agencies, The Guardian reported.
Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte-Carpio, 46, revealed the apparent threat at a Saturday press conference at the House of Representatives in response to a comment warning her of being in enemy territory, The Guardian reported. A House panel had detained an attorney serving as Duterte’s chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, in a detention facility on the premises of the House, after citing Lopez for contempt, according to Filipino news agency ABS-CBN News. The press conference occurred while Duterte visited an apparently tearful and distraught Lopez in detention.
‘Have talked to assassin to kill you,’ Filipino vice president…
