Overview
- Dela Rosa left the Senate building overnight after gunfire inside the complex, Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano said, and his current location is unclear.
- Gunshots inside the Senate triggered evacuations as soldiers in camouflage entered with rifles, and officials reported no injuries while investigators worked to identify who fired.
- The senator had sheltered in the chamber to avoid an International Criminal Court arrest order over alleged killings from 2016 to 2018, and the new leadership said it would allow any arrest only if a Philippine court approved it.
- Before the shots, Dela Rosa urged the armed forces to offer “peaceful support,” and police faced several hundred protesters outside who called for his transfer to The Hague.
- President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called for calm and said there was no government order to arrest Dela Rosa as authorities examined conflicting accounts of the shooting.