{"id":41900,"date":"2015-02-11T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T08:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41900"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:09:54","slug":"two-guards-shot-and-killed-at-b2gold-operation-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/two-guards-shot-and-killed-at-b2gold-operation-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Two guards shot and killed at B2Gold operation in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41992\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B2Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-41992\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B2Gold.jpg\" alt=\"B2Gold in the Philippines (mining.com)\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B2Gold.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/B2Gold-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">B2Gold in the Philippines (mining.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; B2Gold Corp. says two security guards have been shot and killed at its Masbate Gold Project operation in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based company says in a statement that the guards were shot at their guard post early Wednesday (Philippine time).<\/p>\n<p>Both guards worked for a security contractor and the deaths are under investigation by Philippine National Police.<\/p>\n<p>These deaths follow the shooting death of a long-time employee last December at the same operation about 350 kilometres south of Manila.<\/p>\n<p>B2Gold said that incident involved an altercation between employee Jessie Villegas and a security guard who was later arrested by police.<\/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; B2Gold Corp. says two security guards have been shot and killed at its Masbate Gold Project operation in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900","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=41900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}