{"id":97911,"date":"2017-04-11T02:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97911"},"modified":"2017-04-11T02:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:31:28","slug":"philippine-troops-suspected-militants-clash-6-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/11\/philippine-troops-suspected-militants-clash-6-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine troops, suspected militants clash; 6 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_97912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97912\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_bohol_inabanga.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97912\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_bohol_inabanga.png\" alt=\"Philippine officials say at least six people have been killed in battle between government forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists' southern jungle bases and in a region where the U.S. government has warned the gunmen may be conducting kidnappings. (Photo by Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) (English Wikipedia) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)])\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_bohol_inabanga.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ph_locator_bohol_inabanga-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippine officials say at least six people have been killed in battle between government forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists&#8217; southern jungle bases and in a region where the U.S. government has warned the gunmen may be conducting kidnappings. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APh_locator_bohol_inabanga.png\">Mike Gonzalez (TheCoffee) (English Wikipedia) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Philippine officials say at least six people have been killed in battle between government forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists&#8217; southern jungle bases and in a region where the U.S. government has warned the gunmen may be conducting kidnappings.<\/p>\n<p>Military and police officials say a soldier and at least five gunmen were killed in an ongoing clash in Inabanga town in Bohol province, a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n<p>National police chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa says troops and policemen attacked the gunmen early Tuesday in Inabanga, where the gunmen took cover in three houses.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Embassy recently warned Americans of what it called \u201cunsubstantiated yet credible\u201d information of possible kidnappings by terrorists in Bohol and other central areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2014 Philippine officials say at least six people have been killed in battle between government forces and suspected &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,95],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-97911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-abu-sayyaf","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97911","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=97911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}