{"id":158325,"date":"2018-03-27T04:16:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158325"},"modified":"2018-03-27T04:16:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T08:16:30","slug":"no-filipino-casualty-in-russia-mall-fire-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/27\/no-filipino-casualty-in-russia-mall-fire-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Filipino casualty in Russia mall fire: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_109842\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109842\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109842\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png\" alt=\"(PNA photo)\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo.png 220w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/DFA-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-109842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Embassy in Moscow said no Filipino was reported among the casualties in a shopping mall fire in Western Siberia that killed 56 on Sunday (Russian time), based on a list released by local authorities as of March 26.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine Ambassador to Moscow Carlos Sorreta said the Embassy is coordinating with Russian authorities for official updates.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy is still checking though for updates if there is any Filipino among the dead and missing in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), on Monday extended its sympathies to the Russian Federation over the deadly blaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe extend our condolences to the government and people of the Russian Federation over the deaths resulting from the fire at the Winter Cherry Shopping Center in Kemerovo,\u201d DFA Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts and prayers go to the families of those who perished in this tragedy,\u201d he added, as he expressed hopes that the casualty rate would no longer rise.<\/p>\n<p>Sorreta said about 1,000 of the 8,000 Filipinos in Russia are in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>In his report to the DFA, Sorreta said the fire, which is considered to be one the deadliest in Russia in recent years, razed the upper floors of the shopping center in Kemerovo, some 3,600 kilometers from Moscow, where a movie theater and a children\u2019s play center were located.<\/p>\n<p>He said Russian authorities have recovered at least 56 bodies, many of them children, from the fire scene and are searching for dozens who remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Embassy in Moscow said no Filipino was reported among the casualties in a shopping mall fire in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":109842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[47541,9396,204,3722,17906],"class_list":["post-158325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-carlos-sorreta","tag-department-of-foreign-affairs","tag-dfa","tag-moscow","tag-philippine-embassy","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158325","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=158325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}