{"id":29223,"date":"2014-10-18T10:04:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29223"},"modified":"2014-10-19T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T09:06:12","slug":"2-freed-hostages-now-in-custody-of-german-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/18\/2-freed-hostages-now-in-custody-of-german-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"2 freed hostages now in custody of German Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29211\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-hostages.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29211\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-hostages.jpg\" alt=\"Screengrab from video released by the Abu Sayyaf group released on September 24, 2014\" width=\"740\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-hostages.jpg 740w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-hostages-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screengrab from video released by the Abu Sayyaf group released on September 24, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; As of 6: 45 a.m. Saturday the two German hostages released by the Abu Sayyaf Group Friday evening have arrived in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Major Gen. Domingo Tutaan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of now, the two German nationals arrived at VAB (Villamor Air Base) at 6:45 a.m. today. Embassy of Germany have made arrangements for this and have taken custody over them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He added victims Dr. Stefan Viktor Okonek, 71 and Henrike Dielen, 55 were released in Patikul at 8:50 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tutaan said the two were made to undergo medical checkup in Zamboanga City before their flight to Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, AFP public affairs office chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc attributes the release of the two to the government&#8217;s intensified law enforcement operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; As of 6: 45 a.m. Saturday the two German hostages released by the Abu Sayyaf Group Friday evening &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223","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=29223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}