{"id":38789,"date":"2015-01-16T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=38789"},"modified":"2015-01-17T13:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:37:44","slug":"armed-man-takes-two-hostages-in-french-post-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/16\/armed-man-takes-two-hostages-in-french-post-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed man takes two hostages in French post office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38791\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1618\" height=\"1034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image2.jpg 1618w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/image2-1024x654.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1618px) 100vw, 1618px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Parisian authorities confirmed that an armed man is holding two hostages inside a post office in Colombes, an area northwest of Paris on Friday, January 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">According to reports, several people managed to excape the scene.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The man is said to have grenades and armed with a Kalashnikov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The area is now on lockdown and elite forces were already deployed on ground. Helicopters are also surveying the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As of posting, the gunman has no reported links to the Jihadists or Islamic extremists plaguing the French capital the past weeks and has left a total of 17 people dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parisian authorities confirmed that an armed man is holding two hostages inside a post office in Colombes, an area northwest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":38791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","mauthors-ching-dee","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}