{"id":210873,"date":"2019-04-21T22:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=210873"},"modified":"2019-04-21T22:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T02:39:48","slug":"no-filipino-hurt-in-sri-lanka-bombings-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/21\/no-filipino-hurt-in-sri-lanka-bombings-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Filipino hurt in Sri Lanka bombings: DFA"},"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\">The DFA said Philippine Honorary Consul to Colombo, Hugh Sriyal Dissanayake, informed the agency that he is in touch with the Filipino community in the area. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dfaphl\/photos\/a.138804356274407\/675777269243777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">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; No Filipino was among the casualties in the string of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka that killed scores of people on Easter Sunday, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA said Philippine Honorary Consul to Colombo, Hugh Sriyal Dissanayake, informed the agency that he is in touch with the Filipino community in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The community leaders reported that so far, there has been no report of any Filipino hurt in the explosions,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosions occurred at the St. Sebastian\u2019s Church in Negombo, a city about 20 miles north of Colombo; the St. Anthony\u2019s Shrine in Colombo; and Zion Church in the eastern city of Batticaloa during an Easter Sunday service.<\/p>\n<p>Explosions were also initially reported at three hotels in Colombo: the Shangri-La, the Cinnamon Grand, and the Kingsbury.<\/p>\n<p>Ruwan Gunasekera, a police spokesman in the South Asian country, was cited as saying that more than 200 people were killed and 450 others injured by the large-scale suicide bombings.<\/p>\n<p>The Embassy, for its part, continues to monitor the situation and assures readiness to provide any assistance Filipinos in the area may need.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, the DFA expressed sympathies to the Sri Lankan people and the bereaved kins of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Foreign Affairs extends its condolences to the families of the fatalities from the multiple bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka today,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; No Filipino was among the casualties in the string of suicide bombings in Sri Lanka that killed scores of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","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\/210873","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=210873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210874,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210873\/revisions\/210874"}],"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=210873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}