{"id":255945,"date":"2020-05-25T00:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255945"},"modified":"2020-05-25T00:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T04:13:22","slug":"filipina-nurse-wounded-by-artillery-fire-in-tripoli-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/25\/filipina-nurse-wounded-by-artillery-fire-in-tripoli-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipina nurse wounded by artillery fire in Tripoli: DFA"},"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%2Fdfaphl%2Fposts%2F1633817903439704&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"503\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 60-year-old Filipina nurse was wounded by artillery fire in the outskirts of the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Saturday, the Department of Foreign Affairs reported Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a bulletin, the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli said the nurse sustained a shrapnel wound in the shoulder after an artillery round exploded outside the housing compound where she and several other Filipino hospital workers were staying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The nurse is the third Filipino casualty since the outbreak of fighting in Tripoli more than a year ago. Two other Filipinos had been wounded in rocket attacks in other parts of Tripoli during the early months of the fighting,&#8221; Embassy Charg\u00e8 d\u2019Affaires Elmer G. Cato said.<\/p>\n<p>In an advisory, the embassy advised Filipinos to relocate if they live in areas where exchanges of artillery, heavy weapons or small arms fire are taking place.<\/p>\n<p>It added that doing so would keep Filipinos from getting caught in crossfires.<\/p>\n<p>To date, more than 1,000 Filipinos who are mostly hospital workers remain in Tripoli and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Embassy already raised its concern over the possibility that Filipinos may end up as collateral damage after several hospitals in Tripoli have been struck by artillery shells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A 60-year-old Filipina nurse was wounded by artillery fire in the outskirts of the Libyan capital of Tripoli on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":187845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255945","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=255945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255946,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255945\/revisions\/255946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}