{"id":6026,"date":"2023-06-30T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2023-06-30T07:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:40:31","slug":"two-dead-after-exchange-of-fire-near-us-consulate-in-jeddah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=6026","title":{"rendered":"Two dead after exchange of fire near US consulate in Jeddah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man\u00a0with a firearm was stopped near the American Consulate building in Jeddah before an\u00a0exchange of fire broke out\u00a0with the security authorities, which led to his death, Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A Nepalese security guard\u00a0at the consulate was injured in the incident and subsequently died from his injuries, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>According to SPA, the armed man parked a\u00a0car near the consulate building and exited the vehicle carrying a gun, after which security forces\u00a0\u201ctook the initiative to deal with him as required by the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"25598\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"25598\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\">Makkah region police said\u00a0a security investigation was\u00a0ongoing\u00a0aimed at determining the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-109681369_148=\"25598\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-109681369_148=\"25598\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-109681369_148=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-109681369_148=\"1\">SOURCE ARAB NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man\u00a0with a firearm was stopped near the American Consulate building in Jeddah before an\u00a0exchange of fire broke out\u00a0with the security authorities, which led to his death, Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday. A Nepalese security guard\u00a0at the consulate was injured in the incident and subsequently died from his injuries, the report added. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6028,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6026\/revisions\/6028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}