<br /> <p>Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that he stabbed somebody to death when he was 16 during a November 9 speech to expatriate Filipinos in Da Nang City, Vietnam.</p><p>Duterte claimed to have killed someone during a gang fight just hours after giving the opening speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit.</p><p>“When I was a teenager, I was in and out of jail. One fight there, another here…at the age of 16, I killed someone," Duterte said in Filipino which was translated into English by Rappler</a>. “During a fight. Stabbing. I was 16. Just because we looked at each other.”</p><p>Duterte made the comment after defending his drug crackdown that the opposition groups in the Philippines</a> claim has resulted in the death of 13,000 people in police-involved shootings and vigilante violence targeting drug dealers and users.</p><p>Philippines media reported they had contacted the president’s spokesman to confirm whether his comments were intended as a joke.</p><p>Duterte has previously boasted of a violent past. In 2015, he said he “maybe” killed a man when he was 17 years old</a>. He also told a crowd at a rally last year that</a> at university he had shot a law student he accused of bullying, Rappler reported. Credit: RTVMalacanang via Storyful</p><br />
