{"id":91444,"date":"2017-02-27T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91444"},"modified":"2017-02-27T18:43:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:43:31","slug":"military-units-bombard-asg-camp-in-basilan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/27\/military-units-bombard-asg-camp-in-basilan\/","title":{"rendered":"Military units bombard ASG camp in Basilan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91445\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13254202_1126695847386541_2975918123856660027_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91445\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13254202_1126695847386541_2975918123856660027_n.jpg\" alt=\"Government forces, using FA-50PH jet fighters and artillery units, bombarded an Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) camp in Al Barka town, Basilan Monday early morning. (Photo: Philippine Soldiers\/ Facebook)\" width=\"620\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13254202_1126695847386541_2975918123856660027_n.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/13254202_1126695847386541_2975918123856660027_n-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Government forces, using FA-50PH jet fighters and artillery units, bombarded an Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) camp in Al Barka town, Basilan Monday early morning. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilippineSoldier\">Philippine Soldiers\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013Government forces, using FA-50PH jet fighters and artillery units, bombarded an Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) camp in Al Barka town, Basilan Monday early morning.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, which took place 2:57 a.m., targeted an ASG camp in Barangay Macalang of the said town, said 1st Infantry Division public affairs office Major Richard Enciso.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place as the military intensified its rescue efforts for hostages still in the clutches of the terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Enciso said the ASG camp is headed by Furuji Indama and Nurhassan Jamiri. Following ground units reported finding blood trails in the bombarded camp.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuit operations are still ongoing, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s operation came as the military continued rescue operations for kidnap victims being held by the ASG in nearby Sulu.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the military said it received information that one of the hostages, German Jurgen Kantner, had been beheaded due to the failure of his government to pay the bandits&#8217; PHP30 million ransom demand.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla said information is still being validated as no real evidence of the execution has been discovered so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013Government forces, using FA-50PH jet fighters and artillery units, bombarded an Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) camp in Al Barka &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[4194,330],"class_list":["post-91444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-group","tag-military","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91444","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=91444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}