{"id":108979,"date":"2017-07-31T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=108979"},"modified":"2017-07-31T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:16:09","slug":"philippine-troops-capture-key-bridge-near-marawi-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/07\/31\/philippine-troops-capture-key-bridge-near-marawi-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine troops capture key bridge near Marawi militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_104786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104786\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104786\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla.jpg\" alt=\"Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla. (PCOO photo)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Armed-Forces-of-the-Philippines-AFP-spokesperson-Brig.-Gen.-Restituto-Padilla-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla. (PCOO photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Philippine military says troops have captured a key bridge leading to the main position of Islamic State group-linked militants in the southern city of Marawi, but that troops won&#8217;t stage a major assault and will instead press efforts to rescue civilian hostages.<\/p>\n<p>Military spokesman Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said Monday that government troops gained control of Mapandi bridge last week. The bridge leads to Marawi&#8217;s interior business district, where just 40 to 60 remaining militants are believed to be holding 80 to 100 hostages, mostly in a large mosque.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered troops to ensure the safety of the hostages and not launch a massive assault that can endanger the hostages even if that prolongs the militant siege that has already dragged for more than two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014The Philippine military says troops have captured a key bridge leading to the main position of Islamic State group-linked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":104786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108979","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=108979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}