{"id":54289,"date":"2015-07-05T16:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T08:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54289"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T03:52:32","slug":"pao-provides-free-legal-aid-to-families-of-ferry-sinking-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/05\/pao-provides-free-legal-aid-to-families-of-ferry-sinking-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"PAO provides free legal aid to families of ferry sinking victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54265\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54265\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg\" alt=\"Capsized ferry (ABS-CBN News via Twitter)\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/image-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capsized ferry (ABS-CBN News via Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Public Attorney&#8217;s Office (PAO) is now providing free legal aid to the families of the victims of the sinking last week of M\/B Kim Nirvana at the sea near Ormoc City, Leyte which claimed 59 lives.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message, PAO Chief Atty. Persida Rueda-Acosta said that the District Office of PAO in Ormoc City is doing the affidavits of loss for the families and procuring birth certificates for the identities of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;PAO Ormoc District office is now ready give free legal aid sa mga victim ng lumubog na MB Kim Nirvana,&#8221; Acosta said.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has filed murder charges against the owner and crew of the capsized ferry.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 19 people were charged, including ferry operator Jorge Bong Zarco, ship captain Warren Oliviero, and 17 crew members.<\/p>\n<p>Under Philippine law, murder is punishable by up to 40 years imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The police investigation is separate from a coast guard inquiry, which will primarily determine the cause of the sea mishap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Public Attorney&#8217;s Office (PAO) is now providing free legal aid to the families of the victims of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":54265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54289","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\/54289","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=54289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}