{"id":3304,"date":"2014-03-03T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T07:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2014-03-03T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T07:27:46","slug":"philippine-gunmen-abduct-2-children-nanny-driver-on-their-way-to-school-in-restive-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/03\/philippine-gunmen-abduct-2-children-nanny-driver-on-their-way-to-school-in-restive-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine gunmen abduct 2 children, nanny, driver on their way to school in restive south"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ph_locator_sulu_jolo_island.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3327\" alt=\"Ph_locator_sulu_jolo_island\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Ph_locator_sulu_jolo_island.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Gunmen abducted two children, their nanny and a driver while on the way to school Monday in a southern Philippine region notorious for ransom kidnappings by Islamic militants, military officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and nanny were taking a 10-year-old boy and his 8-year-old cousin to school when about five men with M16 rifles in a jeep bumped their van and dragged the four away in Jolo town in Sulu province, marine Capt. Ryan Lacuesta said.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction alarmed school officials and parents in the poor, predominantly Muslim province, Lacuesta said.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sayyaf extremists and small kidnap gangs were among the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is really condemnable because they targeted this time innocent children, who may not be able to withstand such a situation and the trauma,&#8221; Lacuesta said.<\/p>\n<p>Marines and police were deployed to Sulu&#8217;s coastal Patikul town, where the Abu Sayyaf has a number of jungle camps, in an effort to track down the abductors and their captives, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>The military was investigating another reported abduction of a 9-year-old boy in Sulu&#8217;s Indanan town on Sunday. The boy was reportedly snatched from in front of his house by two motorcycle-riding men, Lacuesta said.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sayyaf militants still hold several captives in their jungle camps in Sulu&#8217;s mountainous hinterlands, including two European bird watchers who were kidnapped two years ago. Sulu is about 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The Abu Sayyaf, which is on a U.S. list of terrorist groups, is one of at least three armed Islamic groups outside of a peace deal the government expects to sign soon with the main insurgent group in the south, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8211; Gunmen abducted two children, their nanny and a driver while on the way to school Monday in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[561,722,343],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-as","tag-kidnap","tag-philippines","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","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=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}