{"id":140185,"date":"2017-12-19T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T06:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=140185"},"modified":"2017-12-19T01:06:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T06:06:50","slug":"afp-to-deploy-engineering-units-to-help-in-urduja-hit-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/19\/afp-to-deploy-engineering-units-to-help-in-urduja-hit-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP to deploy engineering units to help in \u2018Urduja\u2019-hit areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112285\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SND-BNB_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112285\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SND-BNB_3.jpg\" alt=\"This was emphasized by Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana when asked by the PNA Wednesday on whether the ongoing conflict in densely-packed Marawi City, where Maute Group terrorists converted concrete houses and buildings into fortified fighting positions, necessitates the acquisition of a main battle tank fleet. (PNA Photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SND-BNB_3.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SND-BNB_3-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The military will deploy its engineering units to assist in relief and rehabilitation efforts in areas hit by tropical depression \u2018Urduja\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Department of National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana made this assurance in an interview Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will assign yung ating engineering brigades\u00a0<em>na pumunta rito para tumulong<\/em>. Rest assured our military (is) here, we have the military commanders here to assist you,\u201d Lorenzana said.<\/p>\n<p>The defense chief also said a Philippine Navy (PN) ship would arrive in Biliran to assist in relief operations in the province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a ship coming from Cebu travelling towards Naval (Biliran\u2019s capital).\u00a0<em>Meron silang mga dala dalang<\/em>\u00a0relief goods\u00a0<em>galing sa<\/em>DSWD,\u201d Lorenzana noted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the PN said it is now preparing its strategic sealift vessels and landing craft heavies (LCHs) to help in the ongoing relief efforts for provinces devastated by tropical depression &#8216;Urduja&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>These are the BRP Tarlac (LD-601) and BRP Davao Del Sur (LD-602), the two strategic sealift vessels acquired from Indonesian shipbuilder PT PAL (Persero) and five LCHs acquired from the Royal Australian Navy.<\/p>\n<p>The above-mentioned ships are now preparing to sealift goods, equipment, and personnel to aid in relief operations.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the damages sustained by the province, Biliran has been placed under a state of calamity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The military will deploy its engineering units to assist in relief and rehabilitation efforts in areas hit by tropical &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":112285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[12748,3413,11004,27017,39421],"class_list":["post-140185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-delfin-lorenzana","tag-department-of-national-defense","tag-philippine-navy","tag-royal-australian-navy","tag-urduja","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140185","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=140185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}