THE Philippine National Police (PNP) ordered the temporary "grounding" of police aircraft, after a helicopter with PNP Chief Archie Gamboa and seven others on board crashed in Laguna early on Thursday.

"We ordered the temporary grounding of the entire PNP fleet of rotary-wing aircraft as a standard procedure while an investigation is underway,"  Maj. Gen. Benigno Durana Jr ., the acting PNP spokesman  told reporters.

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