{"id":29193,"date":"2016-10-06T03:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-woman-dies-in-ethiopia-van-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-10-06T03:12:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T03:12:28","slug":"us-woman-dies-in-ethiopia-van-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-woman-dies-in-ethiopia-van-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"US woman dies in Ethiopia van attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A US citizen has been killed in Ethiopia amid large anti-government protests.}<\/p>\n<p>A van travelling on Addis Ababa&#8217;s outskirts was hit by stones &#8220;thrown by unknown individuals&#8221;, the US embassy in the capital said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman passenger was struck by a stone and died later from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A wave of protests have killed hundreds of people in Ethiopia since November 2015, but it is unclear if the American&#8217;s death is connected to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press news agency reported the woman was an &#8220;agricultural expert&#8221; working in the troubled Oromia region.<\/p>\n<p>It quoted a local official as saying the group had not asked for police protection.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy did not provide additional details about the incident, but the region has been hit by violent protests over the rights of the Oromo ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s correspondent in Ethiopia, Emmanuel Igunza, said many roads were blocked after protests on Tuesday night, and there is a heavy police presence on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Internet services in Ethiopia were also shut down temporarily earlier on Wednesday, but have now been partially restored.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15521 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_91533339_hi035658455.jpg\" alt=\"The Oromia region has been hit by waves of protests for almost a year\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A US citizen has been killed in Ethiopia amid large anti-government protests.} A van travelling on Addis Ababa&#8217;s outskirts was hit by stones &#8220;thrown by unknown individuals&#8221;, the US embassy in the capital said. A woman passenger was struck by a stone and died later from her injuries. A wave of protests have killed hundreds [&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-29193","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\/29193","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=29193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29193"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29193"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}