Malacañang, like the country’s top national security officials, is unable to say who was giving updates to President Benigno Aquino 3rd while the Mamasapano encounter was unfolding.

In a news conference on Friday, Presidential Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said the matter is a subject of various investigations on the incident that killed 44 members of the Philippine National Police-Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) on January 25.

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