{"id":73485,"date":"2016-04-03T04:03:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=73485"},"modified":"2016-04-03T04:03:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T08:03:33","slug":"military-confirms-receiving-reports-asg-kidnapping-4-malaysian-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/04\/03\/military-confirms-receiving-reports-asg-kidnapping-4-malaysian-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Military confirms receiving reports of ASG kidnapping 4 Malaysian nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22511\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22511\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22511\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\" alt=\"ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Screenshot from video courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)\" width=\"325\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg 325w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abu Sayyaf Group\u00a0(Screenshot from the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups&#8217; video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Western Mindanao Command (WMC) on Saturday confirmed that it has received reports that four Malaysian nationals have been kidnapped again by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits in Eastern Sabah waters last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe confirm receiving reports of this incident but our information remains sketchy,\u201d Major Filemon Tan, WMC spokesperson, said in a message to the PNA.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports claimed that the four Malaysians were taken off passing ship.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are now being exerted to ascertain all details on the incident, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also coordinated with our Malaysian counterparts but details of which we are not at liberty to divulge,\u201d Tan stressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in the meantime, WMC forces remain on alert and have taken appropriate actions\/operations to address the situation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Early this week, 10 Indonesian aboard a tugboat were snatched by the bandits while passing off Tawi-Tawi waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Western Mindanao Command (WMC) on Saturday confirmed that it has received reports that four Malaysian nationals have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[9640],"class_list":["post-73485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-pna","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}