{"id":159214,"date":"2018-04-08T04:04:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T08:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159214"},"modified":"2018-04-08T04:04:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T08:04:37","slug":"dfa-checking-if-filipinos-among-victims-in-germany-van-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/08\/dfa-checking-if-filipinos-among-victims-in-germany-van-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA checking if Filipinos among victims in Germany van crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_159215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159215\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Germany-flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159215\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Germany-flag.jpg\" alt=\"The Philippine Embassy in Berlin is checking with authorities to see if any Filipinos are among the casualties in a van crash in the northern part of Germany. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Germany-flag.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Germany-flag-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Germany-flag-768x470.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Embassy in Berlin is checking with authorities to see if any Filipinos are among the casualties in a van crash in the northern part of Germany. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Embassy in Berlin is checking with authorities to see if any Filipinos are among the casualties in a van crash in the northern part of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Two people were killed and about dozens injured when the incident took place outside a restaurant in the city of Muenster in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, about 475 kilometers from Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The van driver, initially identified as a German citizen, reportedly shot and killed himself after the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Quoting Embassy Charg\u00e8 d\u2019Affaires Lilibeth Pono, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said around 4,100 of the 22,500 Filipinos in Germany are in North Rhine-Westphalia.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy has already requested the Philippine Honorary Consul in Essen, Heinz-Peter Heidrich, to assist in coordinating with police authorities in Munster.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the DFA advised all Filipinos in Germany to remain vigilant.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Filipino community were urged to contact the Embassy if there were Filipino casualties in the Muenster incident.<\/p>\n<p>Their emergency contact numbers are: +49-173-521-5703 (hotline); +49-173-521-5702, +49-308-649-500.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine Embassy in Berlin is checking with authorities to see if any Filipinos are among the casualties in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":159215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[3303,49405,49406],"class_list":["post-159214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-germany","tag-philippine-embassy-in-berlin","tag-van-crash","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159214","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=159214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}