{"id":28039,"date":"2014-10-07T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28039"},"modified":"2014-10-07T02:15:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:15:08","slug":"gunmen-kill-2-swiss-men-at-beach-resort-in-southern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/07\/gunmen-kill-2-swiss-men-at-beach-resort-in-southern-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 2 Swiss men at beach resort in southern Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cagayan-de-oro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28040\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cagayan-de-oro.jpg\" alt=\"cagayan de oro\" width=\"515\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cagayan-de-oro.jpg 515w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/cagayan-de-oro-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OPOL, Philippines &#8212; Two Swiss men were gunned down at a beach resort in the southern Philippines, police said Monday, adding that the attack did not appear to be a robbery or an act of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Police Senior Inspector Alwin Baclao said Robert Erich Lober, 67, and Balthasar Johann Erni, 78, were walking out of a beach resort Sunday with their Filipino girlfriends in Opol town in Misamis Oriental province when two men approached and shot them in the head and body.<\/p>\n<p>The two women were not wounded and will be interviewed by investigators, who were reviewing security camera footage in a nearby beach resort where the victims also dropped by.<\/p>\n<p>The brazen attack did not appear to be a robbery because the gunmen, who fled in a taxi, did not take the victims&#8217; cash and jewelry, Baclao said by phone. There also was no sign that Muslim militants from nearby regions were involved, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They approached casually, fired at the victims, then walked away,&#8221; Baclao said, citing accounts by witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, suspected militants from a little-known al-Qaida-inspired group called Khilafa Islamiyah Mindanao detonated a bomb that killed eight people and wounded dozens of others in a crowded bar in Cagayan de Oro city, near Opol.<\/p>\n<p>Opol, a fishing town of 52,000 people, has a row of beach resorts that attract both local and foreign tourists, including retirees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPOL, Philippines &#8212; Two Swiss men were gunned down at a beach resort in the southern Philippines, police said Monday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":28040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039","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=28039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}