{"id":92299,"date":"2017-03-03T03:35:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=92299"},"modified":"2017-03-03T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T08:35:32","slug":"14-troops-wounded-in-latest-encounter-with-abu-sayyaf-bandits-in-sulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/03\/14-troops-wounded-in-latest-encounter-with-abu-sayyaf-bandits-in-sulu\/","title":{"rendered":"14 troops wounded in latest encounter with Abu Sayyaf bandits in Sulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_92107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92107\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/800px-Ph_fil_sulu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92107\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/800px-Ph_fil_sulu.png\" alt=\"As the government intensifies its crackdown against Abu Sayyaf Group bandits, 14 soldiers were wounded following a clash with the bandit group in Patikul town, Sulu Friday morning.(Photo by Roel Balingit [CC BY-SA 3.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/800px-Ph_fil_sulu.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/800px-Ph_fil_sulu-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/800px-Ph_fil_sulu-768x377.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As the government intensifies its crackdown against Abu Sayyaf Group bandits, 14 soldiers were wounded following a clash with the bandit group in Patikul town, Sulu Friday morning.(Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APh_fil_sulu.png\">Roel Balingit [CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA\u2014As the government intensifies its crackdown against Abu Sayyaf Group bandits, 14 soldiers were wounded following a clash with the bandit group in Patikul town, Sulu Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>In the encounter, an undetermined number of bandits were reported wounded, Army spokesperson Col. Benjamin Hao said in a message.<\/p>\n<p>The clash took place 9 a.m. at Kan Udong, Barangay Igasan, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Army spokesperson said troopers from the 32nd Infantry Battalion were conducting focused military operations, in line with President Rodrigo Duterte&#8217;s order to eliminate the ASG bandits once-and-for-all, when it encountered an estimated 120 bandits under the command of Radullan Sahiron and Almuher Yadah.<\/p>\n<p>In the firefight, 14 of the soldiers were wounded while an undetermined number of bandits were believed to have been injured and slain.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuit operations are still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Military in Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi are conducting intensified operations against the bandits in wake of the beheading of German Juergen Kantner last Feb. 26.<\/p>\n<p>Around 31 hostages are believed to be still in the clutches of the terrorist group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014As the government intensifies its crackdown against Abu Sayyaf Group bandits, 14 soldiers were wounded following a clash with the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":92107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[4194],"class_list":["post-92299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf-group","mauthors-priam-f-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92299","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=92299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}