{"id":89182,"date":"2017-02-13T05:34:03","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=89182"},"modified":"2017-02-13T05:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T10:34:03","slug":"4-rebels-killed-5-high-powered-weapons-seized-in-masbate-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/13\/4-rebels-killed-5-high-powered-weapons-seized-in-masbate-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"4 rebels killed, 5 high-powered weapons seized in Masbate clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54597\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54597\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10447599_868269296580921_1047553355995477032_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54597\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10447599_868269296580921_1047553355995477032_n.jpg\" alt=\"Philippine Army soldiers (Photo from the Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas' official Facebook page)\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10447599_868269296580921_1047553355995477032_n.jpg 468w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/10447599_868269296580921_1047553355995477032_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine Army soldiers (Photo from the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineArmyAFP\"> Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas&#8217; official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Four members of the New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) were killed and five high-powered firearms seized following an encounter with troopers from the 2nd Infantry Battalion in Aroroy town, Masbate early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The clash took place 6:20 a.m. at Barangay Pangle, of the above-mentioned locality, said Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo.<\/p>\n<p>Troops were on patrol when they spotted an estimated 20 NPA fighters, triggering a 20-minute gun-battle which resulted in the death of four rebels and recovery of two M-16 automatic rifles, two M-14s and an M-203 grenade launcher, and assorted documents.<\/p>\n<p>No losses were sustained from government forces, the AFP official said.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuit operations are still ongoing as of this posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Four members of the New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) were killed and five high-powered firearms seized following an encounter with troopers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":54597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89182","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=89182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}