{"id":235031,"date":"2019-10-18T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=235031"},"modified":"2019-10-18T11:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:08:40","slug":"no-pinoy-among-deadly-bus-crash-victims-in-saudi-arabia-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/18\/no-pinoy-among-deadly-bus-crash-victims-in-saudi-arabia-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pinoy among deadly bus crash victims in Saudi Arabia: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191219\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah reported that it has not received any report of Filipino casualties from the vehicle collision near the Muslim holy city of Medina,&#8221; DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez told reporters. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=56252750\">File Photo By Patrick Roque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday confirmed that no Filipino was among the casualties in a fatal collision between a passenger bus and a heavy vehicle in Saudi Arabia that killed dozens on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah reported that it has not received any report of Filipino casualties from the vehicle collision near the Muslim holy city of Medina,&#8221; DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Consulate General continues to monitor the incident and will provide further updates on the matter in due course,&#8221; he assured.<\/p>\n<p>At least 35 foreign tourists mostly of Asian and Arab nationalities were killed while four were injured in the crash near the holy city of Medina.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi state media said the injured have been transferred to Al-Hamna Hospital as local authorities initiated an investigation into the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday confirmed that no Filipino was among the casualties in a fatal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235031","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\/235031","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=235031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235032,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235031\/revisions\/235032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}