{"id":2224,"date":"2009-12-10T03:50:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=2224"},"modified":"2009-12-10T03:50:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:50:52","slug":"gunmen-abduct-children-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gunmen-abduct-children-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen abduct children in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2225\" title=\"gunmen abdoct children\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/gunmen-abdoct-children-361x239-custom.jpg\" alt=\"gunmen abdoct children\" width=\"361\" height=\"239\" \/><strong>Reports are coming in of armed bandits who have abducted 65 students and teachers from a village primary school in Agusan del Sur province on Mindanao island the South of the Philippines. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Police which describe the gang as a criminal gang have said that 18 of the hostages in which 17 are children have been released.<\/p>\n<p>First reports say that the incident has no signs of being linked to the 57 people who died last month in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>Nor are the abductions believed to be linked to a Muslim separatist insurgency elsewhere on Mindanao; those rebels are currently in peace talks with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Army spokesman Maj Michelle Anayron told AFP news agency a &#8220;criminal gang&#8221; was responsible for the abductions near the town of Prosperidad on Mindanao&#8217;s eastern coast.<\/p>\n<p>Agusan del Sur Vice-Governor Santiago Cane told AP news agency 19 bandits fleeing the authorities had seized the residents to use as human shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports are coming in of armed bandits who have abducted 65 students and teachers from a village primary school in Agusan del Sur province on Mindanao island the South of the Philippines.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,14],"tags":[3145,3143,3146,3144,3147],"class_list":["post-2224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-world","tag-children-abducted-in-philippines","tag-gunmen-abduct-children-philippines","tag-mindanao-island","tag-philippines","tag-philippines-masacre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}