{"id":5424,"date":"2017-11-06T09:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2017-11-06T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:15:49","slug":"saudi-prince-killed-in-helicopter-crash-near-yemen-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/saudi-prince-killed-in-helicopter-crash-near-yemen-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi prince killed in helicopter crash near Yemen border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Saudi deputy governor and 7 others killed in helicopter crash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deputy governor of Asir province and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash in the southwestern mountains of Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the <span style=\"color: #a80000;\"><a style=\"color: #a80000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spa.gov.sa\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Saudi Press Agency<\/a><\/span> (SPA) reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Mansour bin Muqrin Al Saud, the son of former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz and the deputy governor of Asir province, was on a tour of local projects west of the city of Abha when the crash happened on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Saudi interior ministry said in a statement on Monday that the helicopter&#8217;s wreckage had been found and an investigation was under way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The cause of the crash is unknown but Saudi officials say that the wreckage has been found and responders were searching for survivors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crash occurred a day after Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile near Riyadh&#8217;s international airport reportedly fired by Houthi rebels from Yemen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missile launch was the first aimed by the Shi&#8217;ite rebels at the heart of the Saudi capital, indicating a growing threat posed by the conflict in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2015 Saudi Arabia has led a coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi deputy governor and 7 others killed in helicopter crash The deputy governor of Asir province and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[190,256,216,356,101,114],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-accidents","tag-aircraft","tag-crash","tag-middle-east","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/saudi-helicopter.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1pu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5426,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}