"I just want to inform you that our three compatriots have been executed," Vice President Jejomar Binay announced over local radio, although there being no public announcement from the Chinese government.
"It is a sad day for all of us. Until the last moment, we did everything we could to save the three."
The Three Filipinos Executed in China -- Ramon Credo, 42, Sally Villanueva, 32, and Elizabeth Batain, 38 -- They were arrested separately in China in 2008 for smuggling heroin and sentenced to death.
The Philippine government had made repeated appeals in recent months to spare the lives of the trio, including by sending Binay to Beijing on a mission to have their sentences commuted to life in jail.
But the Chinese government insisted there would be no favours for the trio, and that their cases would be dealt with according to domestic laws.
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