{"id":90507,"date":"2017-02-21T00:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90507"},"modified":"2017-02-21T00:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T05:57:57","slug":"pursuit-ops-against-suspected-pirates-in-viet-ship-attack-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/21\/pursuit-ops-against-suspected-pirates-in-viet-ship-attack-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit ops against suspected pirates in Viet ship attack ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90508\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15825983_1464911580236174_7114138228270758414_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90508\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15825983_1464911580236174_7114138228270758414_n.jpg\" alt=\" AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo in a briefing Monday identified the Vietnamese ship as the M\/V Giang Hai 05, which was attacked at about 8:25 p.m. last Sunday, some 17 nautical miles off Pearl Bank, Tawi-Tawi. (Photo: PTV\/Joy Gumatay\/Facebook)\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15825983_1464911580236174_7114138228270758414_n.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15825983_1464911580236174_7114138228270758414_n-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15825983_1464911580236174_7114138228270758414_n-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><br \/>AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo in a briefing Monday identified the Vietnamese ship as the M\/V Giang Hai 05, which was attacked at about 8:25 p.m. last Sunday, some 17 nautical miles off Pearl Bank, Tawi-Tawi. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PTVph\/photos\/p.1464911580236174\/1464911580236174\/?type=1&amp;opaqueCursor=AbpNyetJr3By2N6zU2qZYDjktuo8GmBKSn_fG7fXvhNIWhoCHSnk5SAXbdaT8nVJYuONGdOXpd25IeKvlhxCprrt7WvwQu2rwa1HpwmlrYVnHZmEB-LF1SLKYtgTKXKrvbBd5qW_8OYZaiX-P499Zl2YPE99UpyrxReU9lxpfY-O7YCKkzG6ecZqXh146uw1EnN5eFnQUYmvjXtmY9XAWiD1JLyT8G3kk7jdsz9zwhOcMdLHLZ3oY_QaPaE99Cka0WN_tTtTt9zJGlOIem-bXDFnYpdH4C8YvHVaLAZu2I4HRJ4Lke4Z3-QypXbQzETbzL-885pXA2SgViqP0g7xccIJ66Qj5M2xKqLSYsShM9gyBRS7cpo1oBuJk32z2wMyZEM&amp;theater\">PTV\/Joy Gumatay\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u2014Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) units are now tracking down the suspected pirates who attacked a Vietnamese-flagged cargo vessel off Tawi-Tawi, killing one of the crewmembers and abducting six others last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>AFP public affairs office chief Col. Edgard Arevalo in a briefing Monday identified the Vietnamese ship as the M\/V Giang Hai 05, which was attacked at about 8:25 p.m. last Sunday, some 17 nautical miles off Pearl Bank, Tawi-Tawi.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected pirates shot dead one of the crewmembers and abducted six others before making their escape, leaving 10 others behind.<\/p>\n<p>Philippine authorities learned of the incident after fishermen spotted the ship drifting off nearby Turtle Island along with the remaining 10 crewmen.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo said this prompted Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi commander Brig. Gen. Custodio Parcon,Jr., to deploy the 48th Marine Company to secure the drifting vessel.<\/p>\n<p>They were aided by elements of the Philippine National Police, Coast Guard and Littoral Observatory Station Taganak.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces recovered 12 empty shells of a 5.56mm automatic rifle aboard the ship.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo said they still had no information on the identities of the suspected pirates nor whether the Abu Sayyaf terrorists had a hand in this incident.<\/p>\n<p>He added that an investigation is now underway to determine this fact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) units are now tracking down the suspected pirates who attacked a Vietnamese-flagged cargo vessel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[3244,15511],"class_list":["post-90507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-viet-ship-attack","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90507","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=90507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}