{"id":78035,"date":"2016-07-02T03:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78035"},"modified":"2016-07-02T03:43:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:43:37","slug":"body-beheaded-canadian-found-sulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/02\/body-beheaded-canadian-found-sulu\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of beheaded Canadian found in Sulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_77298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77298\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77298\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1125.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Hall\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1125.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1125-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014The body of Robert Hall, the Canadian national beheaded by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits last June 13, has been dug-up and recovered in Sulu Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Major Filemon Tan, Western Mindanao Command spokesperson, said Hall&#8217;s decaying remains were recovered by troops of Joint Task Group (JTG) Sulu around 11:35 a.m. in Upper Kamuntayan, Talipao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The body is currently being brought by the troops to JTG Sulu Headquarters at Barangay Busbus, Jolo , Sulu for documentation before turn over to the PNP SOCO (scene-of-the-crime operatives),&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hall was beheaded by the ASG last June 13. His head was later recovered by civilians in front of the gate of the Jolo Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, together with John Ridsdel, Kjartan Sikkengstad and Marites Flor, was abducted last Sept. 21 at the Ocean View Resort in Barangay Camudmud, Samal City, Davao Del Norte.<\/p>\n<p>Sikkengstad is the only remaining kidnap victim with the ASG as Flor was freed by her kidnappers last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Mindanao Command decries the barbaric act of the ASG in beheading its captives which can be described as contrary to the Islamic teachings.<\/p>\n<p>Focused military operations in the area are being undertaken to neutralize the Abu Sayyaf members and possibly rescue the remaining kidnap victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014The body of Robert Hall, the Canadian national beheaded by Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits last June 13, has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[4194,398,608,343,9796,5821],"class_list":["post-78035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-group","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-philippines","tag-robert-hall","tag-sulu","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78035","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=78035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}