{"id":13942,"date":"2014-06-06T16:13:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:13:59","slug":"maguindanao-clash-kills-2-suspected-biff-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/06\/maguindanao-clash-kills-2-suspected-biff-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Maguindanao clash kills 2 suspected BIFF members"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13945\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ameril_Umbra_Kato.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13945\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ameril_Umbra_Kato.png\" alt=\"Ameril Umbra Kato, founder of the Bansamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"211\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ameril Umbra Kato, founder of the Bansamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A regional military spokesperson said on Friday that following a clash with government security forces in Maguindanao, two suspected members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Government troops caught up with the rebels headed by a certain Bongos,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">in the vicinity of Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay town, according to\u00a0Col. Dickscon Hermoso of the Army&#8217;s 6th Infantry Division.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hermoso also said in a report published by GMA News that the fight lasted for about a hour starting at around 5 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>While there were no government casualties reported, Hermosa said that the rebels fled after the clash.<\/p>\n<p>BIFF rebels are breakaway members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which forged a peace agreement with the government earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels were reported to be the suspect of an earlier explosion that killed one soldier and wounded three others in the same town.<\/p>\n<p><em>With reports from GMA News<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A regional military spokesperson said on Friday that following a clash with government security forces in Maguindanao, two &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4760,2722,330],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-biff","tag-clash","tag-military","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","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=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}