{"id":216880,"date":"2019-06-01T00:49:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T04:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=216880"},"modified":"2019-06-01T00:49:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T04:49:02","slug":"palace-condemns-abu-sayyaf-killing-of-dutch-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/01\/palace-condemns-abu-sayyaf-killing-of-dutch-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace condemns Abu Sayyaf killing of Dutch national"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_216881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-216881\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/panelo1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216881\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/panelo1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/panelo1-1.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/panelo1-1-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-216881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(File photo of Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday condemned the recent killing of a Dutch national by the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We condemn, in the strongest terms, the death of Mr. Ewold Horn, a Dutch national kidnapped and had been held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf Group since 2012,&#8221; Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said Horn was killed during an encounter between government troops and the local terrorist group, and his death was confirmed by the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We express our deep condolences to Mr. Horn&#8217;s family and loved ones. We vow to pursue his killers to the ends of the earth until they are brought to justice,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Gerry Besana, Westmincom information officer, said ASG bandits killed Horn, a birdwatcher, who was kidnapped more than seven years ago, in the midst of a firefight in the province of Sulu.<\/p>\n<p>Horn was one of the remaining hostages of the ASG bandits in Sulu. He was kidnapped together with another birdwatcher, Lorenzo Vinciguerra of Switzerland, in Sitio Luuk-Luuk, Barangay Parangan, Panglima Sugala, Tawi-Tawi on Feb. 1, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>They were on a bird watching activity when seized by ASG bandits and were brought to Sulu.<br \/>\nVinciguerra managed to escape in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Friday condemned the recent killing of a Dutch national by the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). &#8220;We &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":216881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ej-roque","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216880","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=216880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216882,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216880\/revisions\/216882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}