{"id":3478,"date":"2025-12-16T13:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/16\/sydney-shooting-suspects-philippines-indian-passports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T13:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:30:19","slug":"sydney-shooting-suspects-philippines-indian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/16\/sydney-shooting-suspects-philippines-indian-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Shooting Suspects Entered Philippines with Indian Passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Bureau of Immigration has announced that two armed individuals, identified as suspects in the recent shooting in Sydney&#8217;s Bondi area, entered the Philippines on November 1 using Indian passports. They returned to Australia on November 28.<\/p>\n<p>Dana Sandoval, spokesperson for the Bureau, told BBC World News that the two men listed Davao City as their final destination upon arrival in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sandoval, their return flight to Australia was direct to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Davao is a major city located in the eastern part of Mindanao island in southern Philippines. In recent years, certain areas in central and southwestern Mindanao, including the island&#8217;s poorer regions, have witnessed activities by Islamist militant groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Sydney shooting suspects entered the Philippines with Indian passports and traveled to Davao before returning directly to Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}