The chief of the National Security Council on Sunday said his office will verify the alleged assassination threat by Vice President Sara Duterte on President Marcos and his wife and on Speaker Martin Romualdez,

MANILA – National Security Adviser Secretary Eduardo Año said on Sunday that all threats to the life of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will be thoroughly investigated and treated as matters of national security.

The National Security Council said it considers all threats to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. a matter of national security after Vice President Sara Duterte said she will have the President and his family "assassinated" if she is killed.