{"id":41995,"date":"2019-09-12T14:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T06:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41995"},"modified":"2019-09-12T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T07:11:37","slug":"abu-sayyaf-bomb-expert-killed-in-clash-in-southern-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=41995","title":{"rendered":"Abu Sayyaf Bomb Expert Killed In Clash In Southern Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MANILA, Sept 12 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; Philippine security forces, killed an Abu Sayyaf terror group&#8217;s bomb expert, in a clash in a remote village, in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, a military spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maj. Arvin Encinas, the spokesperson of the Philippine military&#8217;s Western Mindanao Command, identified the slain terrorist as Nanz Sawadjaan, the younger brother of Abu Sayyaf sub-leader, Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was one of Abu Sayyaf group&#8217;s bomb experts, who produced the improvised explosive devices, used in the recent suicide bombing incidents in Sulu,&#8221; Encinas said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines Armed Forces Joint Task Force, Sulu Commander, Brig. Gen. Corleto Vinluan, said, the killing of Sawadjaan on Tuesday, &#8220;is a great loss&#8221; to the group, adding, his death &#8220;will debilitate the current strategy employed by the group in creating havoc in the province.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two soldiers were wounded in Tuesday&#8217;s clash between the Philippine security forces and around 40 Abu Sayyaf fighters, in a remote village in Patikul town of Sulu province.&#8211; NNN-PNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Sept 12 (NNN-PNA) &#8211; Philippine security forces, killed an Abu Sayyaf terror group&#8217;s bomb expert, in a clash in a remote village, in the southern Philippine province of Sulu, a military spokesman said. Maj. Arvin Encinas, the spokesperson of the Philippine military&#8217;s Western Mindanao Command, identified the slain terrorist as Nanz Sawadjaan, the younger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}