{"id":15692,"date":"2014-06-18T00:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15692"},"modified":"2014-06-18T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:30:03","slug":"dfa-confirms-abduction-of-filipino-in-sabah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/dfa-confirms-abduction-of-filipino-in-sabah\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA confirms abduction of Filipino in Sabah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15732\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building.jpg\" alt=\"dfa-building\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/dfa-building-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on Tuesday that a Filipino was abducted by unidentified armed men, along with a Malaysian national, off Malaysian-controlled Sabah this week.<\/p>\n<p>DFA spokesman Charles Jose said the Philippines\u2019 police attache in Kuala Lumpur received confirmation on the abduction from the Royal Malaysian Police.<\/p>\n<p>Jose said the victims were seized by three masked gunmen on June 16 in Kunak, Sabah. The Malaysian is a fish trader and the Filipino is a worker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice believe the kidnappers intend to bring the kidnap victims to Jolo,\u201d he said, referring to a Philippine province in Mindanao which is a known stronghold of Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf Group.<\/p>\n<p>Jose said the Philippine government does not have any information on the identity of the Filipino, but coordination is continuing between the police of the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second kidnapping incident in Sabah involving a Filipino in three months. A female Filipino resort worker was abducted in April and released after nearly two months in captivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) confirmed on Tuesday that a Filipino was abducted by unidentified armed men, along &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4513,204,607,2560,5488],"class_list":["post-15692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-abduction","tag-dfa","tag-filipino","tag-kidnapped","tag-sabah","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692","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=15692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}