{"id":252755,"date":"2020-04-21T04:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T08:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252755"},"modified":"2020-04-21T04:13:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T08:13:59","slug":"ph-army-honors-troops-killed-in-negocc-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/21\/ph-army-honors-troops-killed-in-negocc-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"PH Army honors troops killed in NegOcc clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252756\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/93979292_2534670160114860_5167835281977507840_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252756\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/93979292_2534670160114860_5167835281977507840_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/93979292_2534670160114860_5167835281977507840_n.jpg 900w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/93979292_2534670160114860_5167835281977507840_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/93979292_2534670160114860_5167835281977507840_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;We honor the sacrifice of our three fallen soldiers in Negros Occidental who fought gallantly in protecting our people against the threat brought by the CPP-NPA terrorists while doing their duty to deliver services to combat Covid-19 (coronavirus disease),&#8221; PA commander Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay said in a statement on Monday. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/photos\/pcb.2534671226781420\/2534670156781527\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmy2028\/\">Philippine Army\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Army (PA) is honoring the sacrifices made by the three soldiers who were killed by the Communist Party of the Philippines &#8211; New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) terrorists while on patrol in Negros Occidental last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We honor the sacrifice of our three fallen soldiers in Negros Occidental who fought gallantly in protecting our people against the threat brought by the CPP-NPA terrorists while doing their duty to deliver services to combat Covid-19 (coronavirus disease),&#8221; PA commander Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports said the troopers of the 94th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division were conducting security patrols to protect the distribution of the government&#8217;s Social Amelioration Program when residents reported the presence of communist rebels conducting extortion and recruitment activities in Sitio Tugas, Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers immediately responded and engaged in a 30-minute firefight with the rebels.<\/p>\n<p>A landmine detonation killed 2nd Lt. Ralf Almante C. Abibico, Cpl. Joel C. Nobleza, and Pfc. Carl Venice S. Bustamante. Four soldiers were also wounded from the blast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their sacrifice will motivate us to continue our mission with formidable resolve and bring lasting peace to our country,\u201d Gapay said.<\/p>\n<p>The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Army (PA) is honoring the sacrifices made by the three soldiers who were killed by the Communist &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":252756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252755","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=252755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252757,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252755\/revisions\/252757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}