{"id":100620,"date":"2017-05-01T23:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100620"},"modified":"2017-05-01T23:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:13:49","slug":"asg-bandits-free-two-abducted-drivers-in-sulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/01\/asg-bandits-free-two-abducted-drivers-in-sulu\/","title":{"rendered":"ASG bandits free two abducted drivers in Sulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100621\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_map_sulu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100621\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_map_sulu.png\" alt=\"Focused military operations by goverment troopers from Joint Task Force Sulu prompted suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to free two drivers Sunday night or just a day after their abduction. (Photo: Eugene Alvin Villar \/ Wikipedia)\" width=\"300\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_map_sulu.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ph_locator_map_sulu-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Focused military operations by goverment troopers from Joint Task Force Sulu prompted suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to free two drivers Sunday night or just a day after their abduction. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Eugene Alvin Villar \/ Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Focused military operations by goverment troopers from Joint Task Force Sulu prompted suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to free two drivers Sunday night or just a day after their abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Brig. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, Joint Task Force Sulu commander, said the victims, identified as Alriznor M. Halis, from Luuk town and Alijar Ahari, a resident of Indanan and both contractual employees of the DPWH-ARMM were earlier abducted 2: 30 p.m. at Sitio Bsunoh Bangkal, Barangay Bangkal last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The two were freed by their captors around 8: 30 p.m. Sunday in an area near Patikul.<\/p>\n<p>Initial debriefing from the two men indicated that the suspects wanted to use them as human shields against the constant military pressure.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bandits got tired of guarding and accompanying the victims and decided to free them.<\/p>\n<p>Sobejana added that there were also reports that the brigands tried to have the two ransomed for Php 2 million but this came to naught as the victims&#8217; families do not have that kind of money, prompting the suspects to release the two unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuit operations are still ongoing as this posting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Focused military operations by goverment troopers from Joint Task Force Sulu prompted suspected Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[18566,254,16120],"class_list":["post-100620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abducted-drivers","tag-abu-sayyaf","tag-joint-task-force-sulu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}