Philippine authorities seize largest drugs haul this year

A man with bags of suspected methamphetamine estimated to be worth more than one billion pesos (£14.6m) seized in Manila (Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Public Information Office/AP)

Authorities in the Philippines seized suspected methamphetamine estimated to be worth more than one billion pesos (£14.6 million) and arrested a Chinese man, as the president’s crackdown on illegal drugs continued in his final months in power.

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency chief Wilkins Villanueva said about 352lb (160kg) of the suspected stimulant, known locally as shabu, was discovered in a house in Valenzuela city in metropolitan Manila after the arrest of the Chinese suspect and his Filipina companion by law enforcers who pretended to be drug buyers.