{"id":91081,"date":"2017-02-24T21:57:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91081"},"modified":"2017-02-24T21:57:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T02:57:43","slug":"navy-foils-abu-sayyaf-piracy-attempt-off-tawi-tawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/24\/navy-foils-abu-sayyaf-piracy-attempt-off-tawi-tawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy foils Abu Sayyaf piracy attempt off Tawi-Tawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_91082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91082\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ph_fil_tawi-tawi.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91082\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ph_fil_tawi-tawi.png\" alt=\"Sea patrols of Naval Forces Western Mindanao foiled another Abu Sayyaf Group attempt to attack a Panamian-flagged merchant vessel passing off Tawi-Tawi waters last Feb. 22. (Photo by Roel Balingit [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ph_fil_tawi-tawi.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ph_fil_tawi-tawi-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-Ph_fil_tawi-tawi-768x887.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sea patrols of Naval Forces Western Mindanao foiled another Abu Sayyaf Group attempt to attack a Panamian-flagged merchant vessel passing off Tawi-Tawi waters last Feb. 22. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APh_fil_tawi-tawi.png\">Roel Balingit [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA\u2014Sea patrols of Naval Forces Western Mindanao foiled another Abu Sayyaf Group attempt to attack a Panamian-flagged merchant vessel passing off Tawi-Tawi waters last Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Friday, NFWM head Admiral Rene Medina said the attempt took place around 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>He added the M\/V Dong Hae Star, which was passing the Sulu Sea on its way to Indonesia, transmitted a distress call to Littoral Monitoring Station in Bongao after noticing that suspicious looking speedboats with armed men were pursuing them as they were passing off Pearl Bank in Tawi-Tawi.<\/p>\n<p>More patrol boats were deployed to the area, scaring the bandits, who all then fled to an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>Medina said LMS Bongao continue to monitor said vessel while transiting the area even as Navy ships under Joint Task Force Tawi-Tawi continue to patrol the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014Sea patrols of Naval Forces Western Mindanao foiled another Abu Sayyaf Group attempt to attack a Panamian-flagged merchant vessel passing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[4194],"class_list":["post-91081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-group","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91081","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=91081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}