{"id":105804,"date":"2017-06-15T05:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=105804"},"modified":"2017-06-15T05:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T09:49:46","slug":"filipinos-among-hurt-in-london-tower-fire-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/06\/15\/filipinos-among-hurt-in-london-tower-fire-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipinos among hurt in London tower fire \u2014DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday said a number of Filipinos were taken to the hospital after they were injured in a fire that hit a housing block in west London.<\/p>\n<p>It assured that the embassy was closely monitoring the situation there.<\/p>\n<p>Acting DFA spokesman Robespierre Bolivar did not give the exact number of Filipinos who were among those hurt in the massive fire that engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivar said London authorities had yet to release updated information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbassy representatives have already visited them. Filipinos living near the Tower have also been advised not to go back to their homes until the situation stabilizes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bolivar further said there had been appeals to the Filipino community in the United Kingdom for assistance to Filipinos who might have been affected.<\/p>\n<p>At least 12 people have reportedly been killed and over 74 others injured in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>London police expected the number of deaths to increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Thursday said a number of Filipinos were taken to the hospital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105804","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=105804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}