{"id":57024,"date":"2019-03-15T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57024"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:07:16","slug":"christchurch-shootings-40-killed-in-one-of-new-zealands-darkest-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/christchurch-shootings-40-killed-in-one-of-new-zealands-darkest-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch shootings: 40 killed in one of &#8220;New Zealand&#8217;s darkest days&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At least 40 people were killed and several injured on Friday when a gunman opened fire at a crowded mosque during afternoon prayers in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand media reported.The South Island city was placed in lockdown as police hunted for an &#8220;active shooter&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladesh cricket team, who were at the mosque for Friday prayer when the shooting started, escaped unscathed.&#8221;A serious and evolving situation is occurring in Christchurch with an active shooter,&#8221; police said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on the mosque shootings were one of New Zealand&#8217;s darkest days and that one suspect was in custody.Ardern, who spoke on television soon after attack said it was an &#8220;extraordinary and unprecedented act of violence&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses told media that a man dressed in a military-style, camouflage outfit, and carrying an automatic rifle had started randomly shooting people in the Al Noor mosque.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 40 people were killed and several injured on Friday when a gunman opened fire at a crowded mosque during afternoon prayers in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand media reported.The South Island city was placed in lockdown as police hunted for an &#8220;active shooter&#8221;. Bangladesh cricket team, who were at the mosque for [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57026,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024\/revisions\/57026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}