{"id":17931,"date":"2014-07-03T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=17931"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T09:42:32","slug":"suspected-communist-rebels-kill-philippine-town-mayor-travelling-in-army-convey-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/03\/suspected-communist-rebels-kill-philippine-town-mayor-travelling-in-army-convey-military-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected communist rebels kill Philippine town mayor travelling in army convey, military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17932\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Xxxxxxxx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17932\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Xxxxxxxx.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by MindanaoEditor65 \/ Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"465\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Xxxxxxxx.jpg 465w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Xxxxxxxx-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by MindanaoEditor65 \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAGAYAN DE ORO,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Suspected communist guerrillas shot and killed a\u00a0Philippine\u00a0town mayor Wednesday while he was travelling in a convoy with army troops from a charity event, military officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Regional military commander Maj. Gen. Ricardo Visaya said at least three New People\u2019s Army rebels opened fire with M16 rifles and wounded Mayor Mario Okinlay in his southern mountain town of Impasug-ong in Bukidnon province. Okinlay later died in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An army battalion commander was among military personnel in the convoy but the mayor, who was riding on a motorcycle in front of two vans and an army truck, was the only one hit by rebel gunfire. The guerrillas fled when the soldiers returned fire.<\/p>\n<p>Okinlay and the soldiers had come from a medical charity mission in a village and were returning to town when they came under attack, regional army spokesman Capt. Christian Uy said.<\/p>\n<p>The Maoist rebels have been fighting since 1969 in one of Asia\u2019s longest-running Marxist insurgencies. Their numbers have dwindled amid battle setbacks, surrenders and factionalism, but the resilient guerrillas are still regarded the country\u2019s most serious security threat.<\/p>\n<p>A disagreement over a rebel demand for the release of detained guerrillas led to the collapse of yearslong peace talks brokered by Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAGAYAN DE ORO,\u00a0Philippines\u2014Suspected communist guerrillas shot and killed a\u00a0Philippine\u00a0town mayor Wednesday while he was travelling in a convoy with army &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931","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=17931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}