{"id":34929,"date":"2014-12-12T01:14:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34929"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T10:54:50","slug":"house-leaders-condemn-rep-vicente-belmontes-ambush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/12\/house-leaders-condemn-rep-vicente-belmontes-ambush\/","title":{"rendered":"House leaders condemn Rep. Vicente Belmonte&#8217;s ambush"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35045\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vicente-belmonte-jr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35045\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vicente-belmonte-jr.jpg\" alt=\"Iligan Rep. Vicente Belmonte Jr. (youtube screengrab)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vicente-belmonte-jr.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vicente-belmonte-jr-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iligan Rep. Vicente Belmonte Jr. (youtube screengrab)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; House leaders condemned in the strongest possible terms the ambush against Iligan City Rep. Vicente \u201cVarf\u201d Belmonte Jr. Thursday afternoon near the Laguindingan Airport in Misamis Oriental, killing his two bodyguards and two drivers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Feliciano \u201cSonny\u201d Belmonte Jr., House independent bloc leader and Leyte Rep.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lasix online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/lasix.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/lasix.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and House Majority Leader and Mandaluyong City Rep.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy propranolol online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/propranolol.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/propranolol.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Neptali \u201cBoyet\u201d Gonzales II called on the authorities to arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Belmonte also aired similar call, saying the ambush \u201cappeared to be well planned,\u201d although Varf Belmonte, who chairs the House committee on dangerous drugs, cheated death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very serious concern. Several people have fired their guns from different directions as per phone conversation with Congressman Varf Belmonte. We are calling on Camp Crame to exert best efforts. Political rivalry is probably behind it,\u201d Belmonte said in a chance interview.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy tizanidine online <a href=\"http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/tizanidine.html\">http:\/\/psychrecoveryinc.com\/mobile\/images\/png\/tizanidine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur authorities should immediately arrest the suspects for them to face the full force of the law. We condemned this cowardly act in the strongest possible terms,\u201d said Romualdez, a lawyer and president of the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very disturbing and alarming, I hope our concerned authorities will be very quick in apprehending the suspects,\u201d said Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>According to Varf Belmonte, he arrived from Manila in the Laguindingan Airport at 1:30 in the afternoon when unidentified men blocked them several meters away from airport while his convoy was heading to Iligan City.<\/p>\n<p>Several heavy armed men alighted the vehicle and opened fire in front of horrified onlookers and passersby. Suspects immediately fled after the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; House leaders condemned in the strongest possible terms the ambush against Iligan City Rep. Vicente \u201cVarf\u201d Belmonte Jr. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-sammy-f-martin","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34929","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=34929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287361,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34929\/revisions\/287361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}