DAVAO CITY: Five drug suspects were shot dead in separate incidents here over a 24-hour period, two days after Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte declared a war on drugs.

"If you do not leave, I will kill you," Duterte warned drug dealers and users during the turnover of command ceremony for the new city police director Col. Richard Bad-ang on Friday.

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