MALACAñANG on Tuesday strongly denounced the weekend attack by the New People’s Army (NPA) on a civilian aircraft in Tagbina, Surigao del Sur that killed its pilot.

“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the shooting of a civilian aircraft and this is the incident where the CPP-NPA apparently shot at an agricultural plane in Surigao,” Palace spokesman Harry Roque, Jr. said in a media briefing.

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