{"id":84045,"date":"2016-12-30T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84045"},"modified":"2016-12-30T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T11:05:00","slug":"bomb-blasts-hurt-at-least-32-at-philippine-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/30\/bomb-blasts-hurt-at-least-32-at-philippine-boxing-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb blasts hurt at least 32 at Philippine boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines\u2014At least 32 people were wounded when two bombs exploded while they were watching a boxing competition in a central Philippine town as part of an annual Roman Catholic holiday festival, police and other officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen of the wounded were admitted to various hospitals while 16 others went home after treatment of their injuries from the late-Wednesday twin blasts in Hilongos town in Leyte province, said Senior Inspector Jenyzen Enciso, the provincial police spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Police recovered an 81 mm mortar cartridge and a cellphone apparently used to detonate the homemade bombs, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has claimed responsibility and investigators were trying to identify the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>The victims include at least 10 children aged 7 to 15 years old.<\/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\u2014At least 32 people were wounded when two bombs exploded while they were watching a boxing competition in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045","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=84045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}