{"id":230640,"date":"2019-09-12T03:20:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230640"},"modified":"2019-09-12T03:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:20:16","slug":"palace-condemns-ambush-of-ex-guv-espino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/12\/palace-condemns-ambush-of-ex-guv-espino\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace condemns ambush of ex-guv Espino"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_221008\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221008\" style=\"width: 680px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/D-XM668UIAA28gO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/D-XM668UIAA28gO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/D-XM668UIAA28gO.jpg 680w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/D-XM668UIAA28gO-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panelo assured that the Philippine National Police (PNP) is thoroughly investigating the attempt to take Espino&#8217;s life (File <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\/status\/1145546998109491201\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\/\">@pnagovph\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang condemned the ambush of former Pangasinan Governor Amada Espino Jr. and vowed to prosecute perpetrators responsible for the \u201cdastardly\u201d act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn this felonious act as we believe that any unjustified killing has no place in a civilized society like ours,\u201d Panelo said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo assured that the Philippine National Police (PNP) is thoroughly investigating the attempt to take Espino\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe guarantee that police authorities are already on top of the situation and will spare no effort in finding the perpetrators of this crime and ascertaining their motive for consummating the same,\u201d said Panelo, also Chief Presidential Legal Counsel, in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow criminal acts perpetrated by these transgressors of law. We will investigate the case thoroughly, PNP is in fact doing that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Espino was wounded while one of his bodyguards was killed when armed men attacked their convoy in an intersection at Barangay Magtaking in San Carlos City, Pangasinan on Wednesday (Sept. 11) afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Espino, also a former representative of Pangasinan, is now in stable condition while his other four aides are also recovering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang condemned the ambush of former Pangasinan Governor Amada Espino Jr. and vowed to prosecute perpetrators responsible for the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":221008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230640","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=230640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230646,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230640\/revisions\/230646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}