{"id":32655,"date":"2014-11-24T02:12:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32655"},"modified":"2014-11-24T02:12:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T18:12:23","slug":"notorious-asg-leader-killed-in-sulu-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/24\/notorious-asg-leader-killed-in-sulu-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Notorious ASG leader killed in Sulu encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22511\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22511\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\" alt=\"ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)\" width=\"600\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg 325w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported on Sunday the death of a notorious Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leader following a shootout with government security forces at Barangay Duyan Kaha, Parang town, Sulu Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Col. Allan Arrojado, AFP Joint Task Group Sulu commander, identified the slain ASG leader as Sihata Latip, who was shot dead when he resisted arrest and engaged the security forces in a firefight at around 4:45 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>One soldier was killed while another one was wounded during the brief clash with the bandit leader.<\/p>\n<p>Arrojado said Latip was involved in the abduction of foreigners and in a series of violent attacks against government forces.<\/p>\n<p>The military and the police are continuously pursuing notorious bandits who are now in the run in Sulu.<\/p>\n<p>AFP chief-of-staff Gen Gregorio Pio Catapang Jr. has commended the troops for the neutralization of a wanted criminal in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported on Sunday the death of a notorious Abu Sayyaf Group &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32655","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=32655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}