WATCH: Gulfstream jet carrying Duterte leaves Villamor for The Hague | ABS-CBN News

An aircraft said to be carrying former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte took off from Manila on Tuesday (March 11).

People in the airport could be heard celebrating the departure, with some clapping and heard shouting “good bye” as the plane left the tarmac.

Duterte was arrested earlier at the request of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over killings in his war on drugs.

The Philippine Star newspaper said on X it had received confirmation from a senior police official that the flight was bound for the Hague, where the ICC is based.

Duterte, the maverick former mayor who led the Philippines from 2016 to 2022, was arrested at a Manila airport on arrival from Hong Kong early on Tuesday, in a major step in the ICC's investigation into thousands of killings in an anti-drugs crackdown that defined his presidency.

(Production: Jay Ereno, Leila Dougan)

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