{"id":212633,"date":"2019-05-03T20:28:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T00:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=212633"},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:28:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T00:28:40","slug":"10-killed-in-22-election-related-incidents-pnp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/03\/10-killed-in-22-election-related-incidents-pnp\/","title":{"rendered":"10 killed in 22 election-related incidents: PNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_212634\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212634\" style=\"width: 1728px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/50272758_2517518281622746_3940680833936916480_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-212634\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/50272758_2517518281622746_3940680833936916480_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1728\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/50272758_2517518281622746_3940680833936916480_o.jpg 1728w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/50272758_2517518281622746_3940680833936916480_o-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1728px) 100vw, 1728px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-212634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PNP spokesperson, Col. Bernard Banac, said the figure involved election-related incidents recorded from January 13 to April 30. A total of 11 persons were also wounded since the start of the election period. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/photos\/a.479051708802757\/2517518251622749\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pnp.pio\/\">Philippine National Police\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A total of 10 persons were killed in 22 incidents as the May 13 mid-term polls drew near, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>PNP spokesperson, Col. Bernard Banac, said the figure involved election-related incidents recorded from January 13 to April 30. A total of 11 persons were also wounded since the start of the election period.<\/p>\n<p>Banac said the number is low compared to the number of election-related cases in the previous election year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, 22 incidents is very low, compared to 106 incidents for the same campaign period in 2016,&#8221; he told reporters, noting that they are still investigating the cases to determine the motives in the killing.<\/p>\n<p>He said an incident involving candidates or their supporters are automatically considered as election-related, especially when it happened during the election period.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incidents, which happened in various parts of the country, are considered homicide cases.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Banac said security measures are all set as 160,000 police personnel will be deployed for the May 13 mid-term elections.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the deployments are those assigned at the national headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City, who will act as reserved forces.<\/p>\n<p>The PNP has also been placed on full alert status in preparation for the mid-term polls, Banac said.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the PNP identified 941 election hotspots or 57.60 percent of the total 1,634 cities and municipalities nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A total of 10 persons were killed in 22 incidents as the May 13 mid-term polls drew near, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":212634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212633","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\/212633","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=212633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212635,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212633\/revisions\/212635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}