{"id":174905,"date":"2018-08-03T23:28:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T03:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=174905"},"modified":"2018-08-03T23:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T03:28:57","slug":"palace-public-dont-speculate-basilan-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/03\/palace-public-dont-speculate-basilan-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace to public: Don&#8217;t speculate on Basilan blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160910\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-160910\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Harry-Roque-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cFor now, I ask the public to cease and desist from making any speculation and let\u2019s await for the final investigation report from law enforcement agencies,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing in Malaybalay, Bukidnon. (PCOO file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday called on the public to \u201ccease and desist\u201d from making any speculation about the Basilan bombing that killed 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, I ask the public to cease and desist from making any speculation and let\u2019s await for the final investigation report from law enforcement agencies,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a press briefing in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said authorities are still verifying whether the incident was the handiwork of the notorious Islamic State or ISIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are still verifying (if) this was an ISIS attack. Authorities are still investigating. It\u2019s very easy to claim credit for a foreign attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not concluding anything yet because investigation has just started,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque commended the law enforcement agencies for their early action that led to the arrest of one suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think authorities deserve praise for their early action leading to the arrest of one personality who may be involved in the bombing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Roque was referring to 58-year-old Indalin Jainul who was reportedly arrested on Wednesday for illegal possession of explosive.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson, Col. Edgard Arevalo, said the military has yet to find evidence indicating that the blast was the work of a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo has considered the possibility that the still unidentified driver of the exploded van was not the bomber but only a courier of the improvised explosive device (IED).<\/p>\n<p>The driver was killed along with a soldier, four militiamen and four civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday called on the public to \u201ccease and desist\u201d from making any speculation about the Basilan bombing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":160910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174905","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=174905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}