{"id":21138,"date":"2015-11-09T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/embassy-in-jordan-confirms-death-of-sa-citizen\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:24:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T11:24:30","slug":"embassy-in-jordan-confirms-death-of-sa-citizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/embassy-in-jordan-confirms-death-of-sa-citizen\/","title":{"rendered":"Embassy in Jordan confirms death of SA citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Johannesburg &#8211; The South African embassy in Jordan has confirmed that a South African was shot and killed on Monday, the Department of International Relations (Dirco) said.}<\/p>\n<p>The South African killed was a 37-year-old from Gauteng who worked for an American security company, Dirco spokesperson Nelson Kgwete wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next-of-kin of the deceased SA national has been informed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It could not be confirmed whether the South African killed was a man or a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Government sent its condolences to the family and friends of the person who was killed, said Kgwete.<\/p>\n<p>According to Associated Press, a Jordanian policeman opened fire on foreign trainers at a police compound, killing two Americans and a South African, before being shot dead.<\/p>\n<p>Two Americans and four Jordanians were wounded in the shooting on the outskirts of the Jordanian capital Amman, government spokesperson Mohammed Momani told the state news agency Petra.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9084 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/death.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>NEWS 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Johannesburg &#8211; The South African embassy in Jordan has confirmed that a South African was shot and killed on Monday, the Department of International Relations (Dirco) said.} The South African killed was a 37-year-old from Gauteng who worked for an American security company, Dirco spokesperson Nelson Kgwete wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The next-of-kin of the deceased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070134,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21138.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21138"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}