{"id":64104,"date":"2020-03-02T18:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64104"},"modified":"2020-03-02T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T11:22:08","slug":"no-malaysians-affected-in-manila-hostage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64104","title":{"rendered":"No Malaysians affected in Manila hostage incident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MANILA-HOSTAGE-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64106\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MANILA-HOSTAGE-1024x614.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MANILA-HOSTAGE-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MANILA-HOSTAGE-768x460.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MANILA-HOSTAGE.jpg 1839w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo courtesy of Sputnik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; No Malaysians were&nbsp;affected in the shooting and hostage incident at a shopping mall in Manila in the&nbsp;Philippines, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Secretary and Head of Chancery of the Malaysian Embassy in the&nbsp;Philippines,&nbsp;Ridzwan Shahabudin, said the current situation in Manila is generally safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wish to clarify that we have been informed by the Philippine National Police through our Police Attache Office that no Malaysian has been reportedly affected&nbsp;in the incident, thus far,\u201d&nbsp;he said in an email reply to Bernama, here, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign media&nbsp;reported that&nbsp;a&nbsp;gunman is holding some 30 people as hostages at the&nbsp;popular&nbsp;V-Mall&nbsp;in San Juan&#8217;s Greenhills commercial district. The suspect is said to be a&nbsp;former security guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least one person has been shot and taken to hospital, San Juan Mayor Francis Zamora was reported as telling the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; No Malaysians were&nbsp;affected in the shooting and hostage incident at a shopping mall in Manila in the&nbsp;Philippines, today. First Secretary and Head of Chancery of the Malaysian Embassy in the&nbsp;Philippines,&nbsp;Ridzwan Shahabudin, said the current situation in Manila is generally safe. \u201cI wish to clarify that we have been informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":64106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64104"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}