Duterte's drug crackdown hits home as man shot dead in front of his pregnant wife, family

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated September 26 2016 - 10:08pm, first published 9:38pm
Seven-month pregnant Ruth-Jane Sombrio, widow of Rogie Sebastian, with their daughter Rogielyn (left) and son Rogie. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Seven-month pregnant Ruth-Jane Sombrio, widow of Rogie Sebastian, with their daughter Rogielyn (left) and son Rogie. Photo: Kate Geraghty
The one-room home where Rogie Sebastian was shot dead at his home in Tondo District during a police drug operation.  Photo: Kate Geraghty
The one-room home where Rogie Sebastian was shot dead at his home in Tondo District during a police drug operation. Photo: Kate Geraghty
A neighbour comforts Ruth-Jane Sombrio at the funeral home where her husband is being held in Binondo District, Manila.  Photo: Kate Geraghty
A neighbour comforts Ruth-Jane Sombrio at the funeral home where her husband is being held in Binondo District, Manila. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Tondo, Manila: A seven-months pregnant mother of two has told how a masked assassin accompanied by police shot dead her husband they mistook for a pusher in president Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drugs crackdown across the Philippines.

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