{"id":32799,"date":"2017-02-24T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fox-show-apologises-for-kenya-westgate-attack\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T12:14:56","slug":"fox-show-apologises-for-kenya-westgate-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fox-show-apologises-for-kenya-westgate-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox show apologises for Kenya Westgate attack video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The executive producers of Fox&#8217;s popular TV thriller 24: Legacy have apologised for using footage from a deadly terror attack in Kenya in 2013.}<\/p>\n<p>Evan Katz and Manny Coto said it &#8220;will be removed from all future broadcasts and versions of the show&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans on Twitter earlier condemned the producers, using hashtag #SomeoneTellFox.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-seven people were killed when al-Shabab militants attacked the popular Westgate mall in the capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr Katz and Mr Coto said that &#8220;we regretfully included news footage of an attack in Nairobi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They added that they &#8220;apologise for any pain caused to the victims and their families and are deeply sorry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest episode of the hit Fox show, real pictures from the attack are introduced by one of the main characters at a security briefing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the footage from Al-Jegrad market in Alexandria Egypt three years ago.The attack was planned and executed by Bin Khalid and his men,&#8221; the character says.<br \/>\nEarlier, users on Twitter voiced their anger, accusing the makers of the show of being insensitive.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18450 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_94820741_1c2f0d87-f276-48f4-be49-582df173095d.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan commandos were sent in after the militants attacked the popular Westgate mall\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The executive producers of Fox&#8217;s popular TV thriller 24: Legacy have apologised for using footage from a deadly terror attack in Kenya in 2013.} Evan Katz and Manny Coto said it &#8220;will be removed from all future broadcasts and versions of the show&#8221;. Kenyans on Twitter earlier condemned the producers, using hashtag #SomeoneTellFox. Sixty-seven people [&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-32799","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\/32799","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=32799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32799"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32799"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}