Malacañang has affirmed a claim of the Philippine National Police that there are no extrajudicial killings under the Duterte administration even if at least 3,800 people were killed in the PNP’s anti-drug operations.

Its spokesman Ernesto Abella over the weekend said the PNP’s claim was consistent with the definition of extrajudicial killings under Administrative Order (AO) 35 of April 2013.

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