{"id":215272,"date":"2019-05-21T04:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=215272"},"modified":"2019-05-21T04:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:30:49","slug":"pinoys-cautioned-amid-reported-missile-targeting-in-saudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/21\/pinoys-cautioned-amid-reported-missile-targeting-in-saudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoys cautioned amid reported missile targeting in Saudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPHLinJeddah%2Fposts%2F10156606402093740&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"644\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Filipinos have been urged to remain vigilant after Saudi authorities reportedly intercepted two alleged Houthi ballistic missiles heading toward Makkah and Jeddah on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory dated May 20, the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah asked all Filipinos living in the city and nearby areas to &#8220;remain calm but vigilant for any eventualities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our kababayans in these areas are further advised to limit unnecessary visits to government offices and public places unless urgent,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>In case of &#8220;any eventuality, especially affecting Filipinos,&#8221; they were encouraged to contact the consulate immediately at 055-521-9613 or 055-521-9614.<\/p>\n<p>Citing reports from Saudi authorities, the consulate said the missiles were intercepted over Taif, 50 km. away from Makkah or Mecca. Mecca, Islam&#8217;s holiest site, hosts more than a million Muslims joining the Hajj pilgrimage annually.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen&#8217;s Iran-backed Houthi, on the other hand, denied it fired the ballistic missiles toward the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Filipinos have been urged to remain vigilant after Saudi authorities reportedly intercepted two alleged Houthi ballistic missiles heading toward &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":215274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215272","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\/215272","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=215272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215275,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215272\/revisions\/215275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}