{"id":30007,"date":"2021-03-21T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/philippine-troops-rescue-indonesian-hostages-and-kill-top-abu-sayyaf-militant"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T07:54:14","slug":"philippine-troops-rescue-indonesian-hostages-and-kill-top-abu-sayyaf-militant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30007","title":{"rendered":"Philippine troops rescue Indonesian hostages and kill top Abu Sayyaf militant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Military says Majan Sahidjuan, a mastermind in several kidnappings by Abu Sayyaf, died after a gun battle <\/p>\n<p>Philippine troops have killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group and rescued four Indonesian hostages held since last year, the military said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Majan Sahidjuan, alias Apo Mike, was severely wounded in a gunbattle with the marines on Saturday night in Languyan town in southern Tawi-Tawi province, and later died, said lieutenant general Corleto Vinluan Jr.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/21\/philippine-troops-rescue-indonesian-hostages-and-kill-top-abu-sayyaf-militant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military says Majan Sahidjuan, a mastermind in several kidnappings by Abu Sayyaf, died after a gun battle Philippine troops have killed a leader of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap-for-ransom group and rescued four Indonesian hostages held since last year, the mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions\/30008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}