{"id":84020,"date":"2016-12-28T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T02:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84020"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:08:52","slug":"bomb-blasts-hurt-more-than-30-at-philippine-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/28\/bomb-blasts-hurt-more-than-30-at-philippine-boxing-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blasts hurt more than 30 at Philippine boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84021\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84021\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ph_locator_leyte_hilongos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84021\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ph_locator_leyte_hilongos.png\" alt=\"Hilongos, Leyte (Wikipedia Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ph_locator_leyte_hilongos.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ph_locator_leyte_hilongos-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84021\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hilongos, Leyte (Wikipedia Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014More than 30 people were wounded when two bombs exploded while they who were watching a boxing competition in a central Philippine town as part of an annual Roman Catholic festival, police and other officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The wounded were brought to a hospital in Hilongos town in Leyte province following the late-Wednesday blasts of what initially appeared to be cellphone-detonated homemade bombs, regional army spokeswoman 1st Lt. Cherry Junia said.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has claimed responsibility that wounded 31. Police said investigators were trying to identify the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine forces have been placed on alert amid on and off offensives in the country&#8217;s south against Muslim militants, including Abu Sayyaf gunmen and armed sympathizers of the Islamic State group who have targeted the capital, Manila, and other urban centres in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Communist guerrillas also have a presence in Leyte province, about 610 kilometres (380 miles) southeast of Manila, but there was no immediate indication they or Muslim militants were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014More than 30 people were wounded when two bombs exploded while they who were watching a boxing competition in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[254,3769,13030,9782,13031],"class_list":["post-84020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf","tag-bomb-blast","tag-hilongos","tag-islamic-state","tag-philippine-boxing-match","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020","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=84020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}