{"id":203186,"date":"2019-02-20T23:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=203186"},"modified":"2019-02-20T23:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:22:59","slug":"pnp-searching-for-child-of-alleged-jolo-suicide-bombers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/02\/20\/pnp-searching-for-child-of-alleged-jolo-suicide-bombers\/","title":{"rendered":"PNP searching for child of alleged Jolo suicide bombers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198952\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198952\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Albayalde-3-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cWe are looking into that,\u00a0yung\u00a0information na\u00a0yan\u00a0na merong silang iniwan na anak dito sa\u00a0Pilipinas\u00a0(the information that they left a child here in the Philippines),\u201d Albayalde told reporters on Wednesday. (File photo by Joey O. Razon\/PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now looking for the child of the alleged suicide bombers behind the Roman Catholic cathedral twin bomb blasts in Jolo, Sulu last month.<\/p>\n<p>PNP Chief, Director General Oscar Albayalde, said the child can help identify the culprits through DNA test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking into that,<em>\u00a0yung\u00a0<\/em>information na<em>\u00a0yan\u00a0<\/em>na merong silang iniwan na anak dito sa<em>\u00a0Pilipinas<\/em>\u00a0(the information that they left a child here in the Philippines),\u201d Albayalde told reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHindi natin alam kung 10 years old, kung babae o lalaki,\u00a0<\/em>but we have information\u00a0<em>na posibleng meron silang iniwan na anak dito<\/em>\u00a0(We don\u2019t know if the child is 10 years old, a girl or a boy, but we have information that they possibly left a child here),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators found two pairs of severed feet belonging to a man and a woman at the crime scene, boosting initial findings that the bombers could have been a foreign couple.<\/p>\n<p>The feet did not match any of the 23 casualties of the twin blasts, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Albayalde said a pair of severed feet matches the DNA of part of a neck recovered from the blast site.<\/p>\n<p>He said investigators are coordinating with their counterparts in Indonesia, following reports that the suicide bombers were Indonesian nationals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually the Indonesian police was here about two weeks ago to help us find out,\u201d Albayalde said.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o earlier said the Indonesian government is willing to assist in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It was A\u00f1o who first said that the suicide bombers were Indonesians, based on post-blast and forensic investigation and testimonies of the survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Philippine National Police (PNP) is now looking for the child of the alleged suicide bombers behind the Roman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":198952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203186","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=203186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}