{"id":24930,"date":"2016-04-27T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eleven-bodies-found-at-cape-verde-barracks\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T02:54:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T02:54:50","slug":"eleven-bodies-found-at-cape-verde-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eleven-bodies-found-at-cape-verde-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven bodies found at Cape Verde barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in the Cape Verde islands off northwest Africa say they have found the bodies of 11 people, including eight soldiers, at a military barracks.}<\/p>\n<p>The authorities say they believe a disgruntled missing soldier was behind the killings.<br \/>\nA government statement said the deaths were not an attempted coup or connected to the drugs trade.<\/p>\n<p>The victims included eight soldiers and three civilians, two of them Spanish nationals.<br \/>\nThe Spaniards were working on repairs at a hilltop communications hub protected by soldiers at the barracks.<\/p>\n<p>A police officer found the bodies at about midday local time (01:00 GMT) at the Monte Tchota barracks north of the capital Praia on the biggest island, Santiago, Cape Verde Television said.<\/p>\n<p>It said police later found an abandoned car containing eight Kalashnikovs and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The former Portuguese colony, an archipelago about 600km (370 miles) of the coast of Senegal with a population of 500,000 people, has been praised by international organisations for its commitment to democracy and development.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has also been targeted by international drug rings as a destination for smuggling cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Last week police seized 280kg of cocaine from a yacht and officials have linked two recent attacks on public figures to the drugs trade.<\/p>\n<p>A new government took office last Friday following an election in March and has promised a zero tolerance approach to crime.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11966 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89458781_89457365.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Verde has been targeted by international drug smuggling rings\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Police in the Cape Verde islands off northwest Africa say they have found the bodies of 11 people, including eight soldiers, at a military barracks.} The authorities say they believe a disgruntled missing soldier was behind the killings. A government statement said the deaths were not an attempted coup or connected to the drugs trade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","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":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930","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=24930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24930"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}