{"id":30335,"date":"2014-11-02T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=30335"},"modified":"2014-11-02T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:27:41","slug":"abu-sayyaf-militants-kill-6-filipino-soldiers-guarding-road-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/02\/abu-sayyaf-militants-kill-6-filipino-soldiers-guarding-road-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Sayyaf militants kill 6 Filipino soldiers guarding road project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ph_locator_basilan_sumisip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30336\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ph_locator_basilan_sumisip.png\" alt=\"Ph_locator_basilan_sumisip\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0military says Abu Sayyaf guerrillas have killed at least six soldiers who were guarding a road project that has been delayed by militant attacks in the country\u2019s impoverished southern region.<\/p>\n<p>Army Col. Rolando Bautista says the soldiers were patrolling the outskirts of a farming village on Basilan island\u2019s Sumisip town Sunday when about 20 heavily armed Abu Sayyaf fighters opened fire, sparking a 45-minute battle.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista says he deployed additional troops to pursue the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came as hundreds of troops hunted down Abu Sayyaf gunmen after they freed two German tourists last month on nearby Jolo Island, reportedly after a huge ransom payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA,\u00a0Philippines\u2014The\u00a0Philippine\u00a0military says Abu Sayyaf guerrillas have killed at least six soldiers who were guarding a road project that has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":30336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335","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=30335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}