{"id":79441,"date":"2016-08-03T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T06:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=79441"},"modified":"2016-08-03T02:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T06:54:21","slug":"6-men-mayor-espinosa-killed-clash-cops-albuera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/08\/03\/6-men-mayor-espinosa-killed-clash-cops-albuera\/","title":{"rendered":"6 men of Mayor Espinosa killed in clash with cops in Albuera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_79442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79442\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ph_locator_leyte_albuera.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79442\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ph_locator_leyte_albuera.png\" alt=\"Albuera, Leyte. (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ph_locator_leyte_albuera.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ph_locator_leyte_albuera-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albuera, Leyte. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albuera,_Leyte\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ALBUERA, Leyte \u2013 Six armed men, allegedly the bodyguards of Mayor Rolando Espinosa, Sr. were killed in a clash with police early Wednesday morning at the vicinity of the mayor\u2019s house in Sitio Tinago, Benolho village here.<\/p>\n<p>PNP Eastern Visayas Regional Director Chief Supt. Elmer Beltejar, who was at the crime scene, said the encounter took place around 5:30 a.m. when armed men watching the gates of Espinosa\u2019s houses opened fire at cops nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The police deployed forces to the compound Monday evening after President Rodrigo Duterte demanded for the surrender of Espinosa and his son Kerwin within 24 hours or face a \u201cshoot on site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The father surrendered to Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa on Tuesday, but the son remained at large.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese bodyguards killed in shootout are reportedly from Mindanao. They were hired by the mayor to secure him during the elections. One of them was a hitman,\u201d Beltejar told reporters here.<\/p>\n<p>At the crime scene, the police recovered 13 assorted long firearms, four caliber .45 pistols and rifle grenades.<\/p>\n<p>Seized firearms, according to Beltejar will be used as evidence in filing a case against the mayor, who at present, have no warrant of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The town is generally peaceful, but villagers nearby are afraid to go out after sunset for fear of clashes between police and the armed group of Espinosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUERA, Leyte \u2013 Six armed men, allegedly the bodyguards of Mayor Rolando Espinosa, Sr. were killed in a clash with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[11839,11822,11838],"class_list":["post-79441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-albuera","tag-leyte","tag-mayor-espinosa","mauthors-elvie-roman-roa","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79441","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=79441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}