{"id":16090,"date":"2014-06-20T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=16090"},"modified":"2014-06-20T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T02:43:35","slug":"10-abu-sayyaf-bandits-seven-soldiers-killed-in-sulu-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/20\/10-abu-sayyaf-bandits-seven-soldiers-killed-in-sulu-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Abu Sayyaf bandits, seven soldiers killed in Sulu clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2244\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/abu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2244\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/abu-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, photographed in 2000.  (Photo : History Commons)\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, photographed in 2000. (Photo : History Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">ZAMBOANGA CITY -\u2013 Ten Abu Sayyaf bandits and seven soldiers were killed while 24 others were wounded in a firefight in the province of Sulu early today, Thursday, a military official disclosed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom) information officer Capt. Maria Rowena Muyuela disclosed the firefight broke out around 6:30 a.m. in Sitio Sangay, Barangay Buhanginan, Patikul, Sulu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Muyuela said the firefight ensued when the troops from the 2nd Marine Brigade chanced upon the Abu Sayyafs bandits led by Hairula Asbang while conducting security patrol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Muyuela said Asbang is one of the Abu Sayyaf Group\u2019s (ASG) mid-level leaders in the province of Sulu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">She disclosed that most of the government casualties were hit by mortar fires unleashed by the Abu Sayyaf bandits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">She said the troops have recovered the remains of one of the 10 slain Abu Sayyaf bandits as pursuit continues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe marines are presently conducting follow on law enforcement operation in coordination with the police to locate and neutralize the ASG,\u201d Muyuela added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZAMBOANGA CITY -\u2013 Ten Abu Sayyaf bandits and seven soldiers were killed while 24 others were wounded in a firefight &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-16090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090","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=16090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}