{"id":31308,"date":"2014-11-11T13:56:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31308"},"modified":"2014-11-11T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:03:33","slug":"bomb-sniffing-canine-saves-handlers-life-in-zamboanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/11\/bomb-sniffing-canine-saves-handlers-life-in-zamboanga\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb-sniffing canine saves handler\u2019s life in Zamboanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zamboanga-map.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20882\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zamboanga-map.png\" alt=\"Zamboanga map\" width=\"512\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zamboanga-map.png 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Zamboanga-map-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officer Manuel Ynid owes his life to his partner; a bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois named Diego. The canine saved the handler\u2019s life by alerting him to a bomb concealed in a cardboard box seconds before the device exploded on the streets of the tumultuous southern city of Zamboanga.<\/p>\n<p>City police spokesman Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca.Police said on Monday that Ynid Diego were part of a team that was investigating an earlier explosion at a massage parlour. They happened upon a cardboard box, and \u2013 as Ynid moved toward the package \u2013 Diego reacted, indicating the presence of a bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The handler and his dog moved away from the box in the nick of time. They had gotten a few meters away when the bomb exploded, injuring Ynid. Diego, who has been a member of the canine unit for three years, was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the improvised explosive device (IED) was made from ammonium nitrate, and was possibly detonated with the use of a mobile phone. They have yet to determine who was responsible for the blast. .<\/p>\n<p>Ynid is in stable condition, while Diego has been given a week of downtime to recuperate from the stress of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Diego \u2013 who has been a member of the canine unit for three years \u2013 also sniffed out a bomb that had been planted in a public square.<\/p>\n<p>Zamboanga is a hotspot of Muslim rebel activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Manuel Ynid owes his life to his partner; a bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois named Diego. The canine saved the handler\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[8580,5666,2721],"class_list":["post-31308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-bomb-sniffing-dog","tag-muslim-rebels","tag-zamboanga","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308","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=31308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}