{"id":178678,"date":"2018-08-27T02:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T06:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=178678"},"modified":"2018-08-27T02:32:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T06:32:23","slug":"no-filipino-among-florida-mass-shooting-victims-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/08\/27\/no-filipino-among-florida-mass-shooting-victims-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Filipino among Florida mass shooting victims: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111862\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-DFA-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111862\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-DFA-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-DFA-Logo.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-DFA-Logo-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DFA, through the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., expressed its condolences to the families of the victims in the shooting incident. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; No Filipino was among the victims of a fatal shooting incident in Florida as per report from the Philippine Embassy in Washington, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As of posting, the agency is monitoring the situation of the Filipino Community in Jacksonville Landing, Florida, after the mass shooting on Sunday that left at least three people dead and 11 wounded.<\/p>\n<p>There are around 13,700 members of the Filipino Community in Florida\u2019s 4th Congressional District, which includes Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the gunman opened fire inside a gaming bar, where the tournament was being held, killing two and wounding 11 others before he shot and killed himself. The motive behind the shooting is still being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA, through the Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C., expressed its condolences to the families of the victims in the shooting incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez has reported the incident to Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano and informed him that authorities are still in the process of identifying the victims.<\/p>\n<p>According to Romualdez, Honorary Consul Henry Howard of the Philippine Consulate in Miami has reported that he has not received any report of Filipino casualties so far.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; No Filipino was among the victims of a fatal shooting incident in Florida as per report from the Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178678","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=178678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}