{"id":12408,"date":"2014-05-28T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12408"},"modified":"2014-05-28T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T12:33:10","slug":"p30m-ransom-asked-for-freedom-of-2-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/28\/p30m-ransom-asked-for-freedom-of-2-women\/","title":{"rendered":"P30M ransom asked for freedom of 2 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2244\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/abu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2244\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/abu.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, photographed in 2000.  (Photo : History Commons)\" width=\"350\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, photographed in 2000. (Photo : History Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) demanded P30 million ransom for the release of a Chinese businesswoman and daughter who were abducted last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police authorities said that the two victims, Dina Lim Eraham, 45, and her 19-year-old daughter Yahong Lim Tan, were taken from their karaoke house on Thursday night by gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>The ransom demand was relayed to the son of the victims on Saturday morning through a cellular phone call by Dina Lim.<\/p>\n<p>However, the details of the deadline of ransom payment and the exchange and release of the victims were not specified by the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>The police said they have formed Task Force Dalby to conduct safe rescue operation for the two Chinese women.<\/p>\n<p>The task force is now investigating the crime, which happened less than two months after a school principal was also abducted and freed by Abu Sayyaf members operating in Sumisip, Basilan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) demanded P30 million ransom for the release of a Chinese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[4194,4193,1663,4192],"class_list":["post-12408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-group","tag-chinese-women","tag-kidnapping","tag-p30m-ransom","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}