{"id":207215,"date":"2019-03-28T00:08:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=207215"},"modified":"2019-03-28T00:08:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T04:08:43","slug":"3-npas-killed-in-northern-samar-police-station-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/03\/28\/3-npas-killed-in-northern-samar-police-station-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"3 NPAs killed in Northern Samar police station attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TACLOBAN CITY<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Three members of the New People\u2019s Army (NPA) were killed when they attempted to overrun a police station in Victoria, Northern Samar early Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 50 armed rebels, mostly women clad in military fatigue uniforms with yellow headbands, failed to seize the police station when they launched an attack at about 3:30 a.m., the Police Regional Office 8 (Eastern Visayas) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 15 policemen on duty led by Police Lt. Eladio Alo, Victoria town chief of police, were able to defend the police station and put up a firefight with the communist terrorists by occupying the rooftop of their station,\u201d PRO-8 said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>Two policemen were slightly wounded by shrapnel during the three-hour gun battle that ended at about 6:40 a.m. They are Police Senior Master Sgt. Arturo Gordo and Police Master Sgt. Arnold Cabacang.<\/p>\n<p>A young NPA member was also arrested by the police after the firefight while they recovered two firearms.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA unit, which has jurisdiction in the area, is under section committee 2, sub-regional committee emporium of the Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee, headed by Ranie Cabides, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria, a fifth class town in Northern Samar, is about 238 km. north of Tacloban, the regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACLOBAN CITY\u00a0&#8212; Three members of the New People\u2019s Army (NPA) were killed when they attempted to overrun a police station &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-sarwell-meniano","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207215","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=207215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207261,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207215\/revisions\/207261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}