{"id":36394,"date":"2014-12-25T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=36394"},"modified":"2014-12-25T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T18:58:11","slug":"long-time-b2gold-employee-shot-and-killed-at-philippine-mining-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/25\/long-time-b2gold-employee-shot-and-killed-at-philippine-mining-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Long time B2Gold employee shot and killed at Philippine mining operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18536\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mining-coal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18536\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/mining-coal.jpg\" alt=\"Mining \/ Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mining \/ Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A Canadian gold miner says a long-time employee was shot and killed at its Philippine mining operation, about 350 kilometres south of the capital Manila.<\/p>\n<p>B2Gold Corp.\u00a0says police are investigating the incident, which involved an altercation on Saturday between employee Jessie Villegas and a security guard with Kublai Khan Security Services at the Masbate open pit mining operation.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the unidentified security guard was arrested by the Philippine National Police at Aroroy.<\/p>\n<p>B2Gold provided few details about Villegas but said he is survived by his wife, Antonieta Marcial Villegas, and eleven children.<\/p>\n<p>The mining and milling operation on the island of Masbate was acquired by B2Gold through a merger with CGA Mining Ltd., that was completed in early 2013.<\/p>\n<p>B2Gold&#8217;s other mining operations are in Nicaragua and Namibia and it has properties in Mali, Burkina Faso and Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; A Canadian gold miner says a long-time employee was shot and killed at its Philippine mining operation, about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":18536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394","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=36394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}