Manila, July 14 -- Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Monday said investigators are eyeing possible links of individuals allegedly behind the case of the missing "sabungeros" (cockfight aficionados) and extrajudicial killings (EJKs) during the past administration's war on drugs.

"I think that the deaths might intersect more on the death squads. The people who undertake the contractual killings may intersect somehow with the drug war and with the e-sabong. Same, may mga taong involved sa pagpatay ng tao sa (there are people involved in killing people during the) drug war and in e-sabong. That's as far as we can trace right now, but we will have to establish clearer links to each other," Remulla said in a media interview.

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