{"id":12600,"date":"2014-05-29T02:08:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2014-05-29T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T18:08:29","slug":"ph-police-shoot-dead-eight-suspected-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/29\/ph-police-shoot-dead-eight-suspected-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"PH police shoot dead eight suspected robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9201\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9201\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/shutterstock_24860083-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eight suspected robbers were shot dead by Philippine police in a shootout on Tuesday, at a checkpoint near the Philippine capital city of Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The gun battle stemmed from a tip that was received by police officers in the town of Silang, approximately 44 kilometres (28 miles) south of Manila. The law enforcers reportedly got a hold of information that nine men on board four motorcycles were on their way to rob a store.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the lead, police set up a checkpoint, which the motorcycle riders disregarded and drove through, The riders\u2019non-compliance subsequently caused the officers to shoot, triggering a firefight between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of the suspects were shot dead, while one escaped. Eight handguns were likewise recovered from the suspects, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Interaksyon, national police spokesmen in Manila could not be reached to comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine police have faced past accusations of &#8220;rubbing-out&#8221; suspects and then reporting they were killed while resisting arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Eight suspected robbers were shot dead by Philippine police in a shootout on Tuesday, at a checkpoint near the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[343,9418,729,4272,4273,730],"class_list":["post-12600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-philippines","tag-pnp","tag-police","tag-robbers","tag-rubout","tag-shootout","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600","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=12600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}