Manila, Feb. 13 -- Mayor Raymond Alvin Garcia on Thursday led other officials in the destruction of over 40 kg. of illegal drugs approximately worth PHP284 million through thermal incineration in a private funeral parlor, an anti-narcotics official said.

Alex Tablate, regional head of the Philippine Drugs Enforcement Agency (PDEA), said the illegal drugs destroyed using the thermal incinerator of Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes consisted 21 kg. of shabu and 2.5 kg. of marijuana.

He said destroying the seized drugs would show that the agency is bent on addressing the serious drug problem in Central Visayas.

He said most of the seized drugs were products of their operations in Cebu City, considered by the PDEA as a "central point" of the ille...