{"id":4770,"date":"2012-12-22T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-sudan-army-admits-bombing-un-helicopter\/"},"modified":"2012-12-22T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T01:21:27","slug":"south-sudan-army-admits-bombing-un-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-sudan-army-admits-bombing-un-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan Army Admits Bombing UN Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The UN says a helicopter from its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has been shot down by the army, killing all four crew, believed to be Russians.}}<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman said the aircraft was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission in eastern Jonglei state.<\/p>\n<p>UN chief Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the attack on the &#8220;clearly marked&#8221; helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>However, South Sudan&#8217;s minister of information told the BBC that the cause of the incident was not clear.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has been helping those caught up in deadly clashes between rival communities in Jonglei state.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy UN spokesman Eduardo del Buey said South Sudan&#8217;s military had admitted it had hit the helicopter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The UN says a helicopter from its peacekeeping mission in South Sudan has been shot down by the army, killing all four crew, believed to be Russians.}} A spokesman said the aircraft was shot down while on a reconnaissance mission in eastern Jonglei state. UN chief Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the attack on the &#8220;clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4770"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}