{"id":199435,"date":"2019-01-26T19:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199435"},"modified":"2019-01-26T19:11:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T00:11:26","slug":"dfa-checking-if-pinoys-among-brazil-dam-collapse-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/26\/dfa-checking-if-pinoys-among-brazil-dam-collapse-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA checking if Pinoys among Brazil dam collapse victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187845\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187845\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Department-of-Foreign-Affairs-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DFA Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato told the Philippine News Agency there are about 12,000 Filipinos living in Brazil. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407\/675777269243777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/\">Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is still determining if there are Filipinos among the fatalities of a dam collapse in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>DFA Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato told the Philippine News Agency there are about 12,000 Filipinos living in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Embassy in Brazil is in touch with authorities to determine if there were Filipinos among the casualties in the incident, according to Ambassador Marichu Mauro,&#8221; Cato said in a text message Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who lost their lives in this tragedy,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Scores of people are feared dead with some 200 reported missing after a tailings dam burst at the Feijao iron mine near Brumadinho in the South American nation&#8217;s southeastern Minas Gerais state.<\/p>\n<p>News citing Brazil Fire chief Col. Edgar Estev\u00e3o said around 100 people were rescued during the first hours after the disaster with seven bodies found dead and nine others wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse came following the 2015 Bento Rodrigues dam disaster in Minas Gerais where more than a dozen were killed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is still determining if there are Filipinos among the fatalities of a dam &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199435","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\/199435","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=199435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}