{"id":112618,"date":"2017-08-17T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=112618"},"modified":"2017-08-17T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T07:03:19","slug":"palace-vows-impartial-probe-into-bulacan-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/17\/palace-vows-impartial-probe-into-bulacan-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace vows impartial probe into Bulacan raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><\/del><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_112620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112620\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/abella-1-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112620\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/abella-1-4.jpg\" alt=\" A large number of deaths was met with criticisms and several sectors have called out for an investigation on the matter. (PNA PHOTO)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large number of deaths was met with criticisms and several sectors have called out for an investigation on the matter. (PNA PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday vowed that investigations into the simultaneous Bulacan raids that killed 32 alleged drug offenders would be impartial, even as it downplayed skepticisms over a large number of suspects killed in the police operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a fair and impartial investigation on the recent Bulacan raids,\u201d Presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulacan raids, as it is popularly known, were a series of simultaneous police anti-illegal drug operations that were conducted in a 24-hour period, from 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (August 15) to 12:00 a.m. Wednesday (August 16).<\/p>\n<p>A large number of deaths was met with criticisms and several sectors have called out for an investigation on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abella attributed the number of deaths to the wide scope of the operations and to the violent response of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bulacan raids, we have to underscore, are not the result of a single action, but a wide ranging simultaneous police operations against illegal drug offenders conducted in the whole province of Bulacan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal authorities were met with violent resistance as evidenced by the recovery of firearms, grenades and live ammunitions,\u201d Abella said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Bulacan raids consisted of 66 anti-drug operations where 20 armed encounters were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the death of 32 suspects, the raids resulted in 109 arrests and the recovery of about PHP1 million worth of illegal drugs\u00a0and 34 firearms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014 Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday vowed that investigations into the simultaneous Bulacan raids that killed 32 alleged drug offenders would be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[21420,21421,978],"class_list":["post-112618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-bulacan-raids","tag-impartial-probe","tag-malacanang","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112618","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=112618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}