{"id":148469,"date":"2018-01-24T01:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148469"},"modified":"2018-01-24T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T06:26:29","slug":"2-troops-killed-2-hurt-in-kalinga-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/24\/2-troops-killed-2-hurt-in-kalinga-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"2 troops killed, 2 hurt in Kalinga clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Two troopers from the 50th Infantry Battalion were killed while another two were wounded following an encounter with New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) terrorists in Kalinga Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Jefferson Somera, 5th Infantry Division spokesperson, said the clash took place 10 a.m. at Sitio Matayog, Barangay Baay, Pinukpuk, of the above-mentioned province.<\/p>\n<p>Troops were responding to reports of NPA extortion activity in the area when fighting erupted, killing two soldiers and wounding two others.<\/p>\n<p>Somera said the return fire from government troops caused an undetermined number of casualties among the NPAs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The names of the government casualties were temporarily withheld pending notification of their next-of-kin,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Additional troops were already deployed to augment the troops of 50th Infantry Battalion in pursuing the fleeing rebels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Two troopers from the 50th Infantry Battalion were killed while another two were wounded following an encounter with New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[44501,44502,3592,16023],"class_list":["post-148469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-50th-infantry-battalion","tag-kalinga-clash","tag-new-peoples-army","tag-troopers","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148469","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=148469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}