{"id":10045,"date":"2019-09-30T10:45:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10045"},"modified":"2019-09-30T10:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T05:45:19","slug":"saudi-kings-bodyguard-killed-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10045","title":{"rendered":"Saudi King\u2019s Bodyguard Killed in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A prominent personal\u00a0 bodyguard to Saudia Arabia&#8217;s\u00a0 King Salman has been shot and killed in a personal dispute, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Major General Abdulaziz al-Fagham was killed in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, where the government relocates for the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman for the Makkah province confirmed the killing, saying the bodyguard was shot after a verbal argument with a friend during a visit to his house, according to the official SPA news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter refused to surrender to police who had surrounded the site and subsequently shot him dead, the statement said.\u00a0Another Saudi, a Filipino and five members of the security forces were also wounded by gunfire, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Fagham was transferred to a hospital but died from his wounds. Five security forces were also injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Fagham had served as the personal bodyguard of late King Abdullah, who died in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent personal\u00a0 bodyguard to Saudia Arabia&#8217;s\u00a0 King Salman has been shot and killed in a personal dispute, according to state media. Major General Abdulaziz al-Fagham was killed in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, where the government relocates for the summer months. A police spokesman for the Makkah province confirmed the killing, saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10047,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10045\/revisions\/10047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}