{"id":121480,"date":"2017-10-04T23:44:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=121480"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:44:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:44:25","slug":"17-more-hostages-rescued-in-marawi-lorenzana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/04\/17-more-hostages-rescued-in-marawi-lorenzana\/","title":{"rendered":"17 more hostages rescued in Marawi: Lorenzana"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111689\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delfin_Lorenzana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111689\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delfin_Lorenzana.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (Photo By Department of Defense (Philippines), CC BY-SA 4.0)\" width=\"900\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delfin_Lorenzana.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delfin_Lorenzana-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delfin_Lorenzana-768x795.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (Photo By Department of Defense (Philippines), CC BY-SA 4.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed Wednesday that 17 more hostages have been rescued by military troops engaged in clearing operations in Marawi City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it is true that 17 more hostages were rescued in Marawi: 9 males and 8 females, ages ranging from 18-75,&#8221; he said in a message to the Philippine News Agency (PNA).<br \/>\nThe defense chief declined to give other details on the matter for safety and security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Details of the rescue are confidential because efforts to rescue the remaining hostages are still ongoing,&#8221; Lorenzana added.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs office chief, Col. Edgard Arevalo, confirmed the information from the DND chief but declined to give further details for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p>He said the hostages were rescued during the &#8220;wee hours of the morning&#8221; and that they are undergoing medical examination after they were saved by troops of Task Force Ranao.<\/p>\n<p>This development brings down the number of hostages held captive by the Maute Group terrorists to 26.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana confirmed Wednesday that 17 more hostages have been rescued by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[26113,25299,7206],"class_list":["post-121480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-17-hostages","tag-lorenzana","tag-marawi","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121480","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=121480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}