{"id":180253,"date":"2018-09-06T06:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=180253"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:11:52","slug":"dfa-checking-pinoys-saudi-following-foiled-missile-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/06\/dfa-checking-pinoys-saudi-following-foiled-missile-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA checking on Pinoys in Saudi following foiled missile attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180254\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180254\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/35628394_10155889184718525_1301762290579668992_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is currently checking whether there were Filipinos among those reported wounded in Saudi Arabia after debris from an intercepted ballistic missile fell on a residential area in Najran. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10155889184698525&amp;set=ecnf.561058524&amp;type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zachdelbadajos?ref=br_rs\">Ed Badajos\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is currently checking whether there were Filipinos among those reported wounded in Saudi Arabia after debris from an intercepted ballistic missile fell on a residential area in Najran.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah said the missile, which was fired from Yemen, was successfully intercepted and destroyed by the Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces around 8 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Consul General Edgar Badajos said the debris from the missile fell on a residential area, causing minor injuries to 23 persons on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Conflict in Yemen escalated in 2015 when an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened at the request of Yemen\u2019s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi against opposition forces.<\/p>\n<p>The country, which hosts almost a million Filipino workers, has repeatedly been targeted by Houthi rebels fighting the coalition supporting Hadi.<\/p>\n<p>Last March, Saudi forces shot down several ballistic missiles but two Egyptians on the ground were killed by falling debris.<\/p>\n<p>According to latest figures from the DFA, there are 374,495 Filipinos in Riyadh; 7,850 in Najran; and 15,700 in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. Najran, where shrapnel from the missile fell, is located southwest of the Kingdom near its border with Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is currently checking whether there were Filipinos among those reported wounded in Saudi &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":180254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180253","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=180253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}