{"id":23953,"date":"2011-01-12T06:49:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_egyptian_christian_fatally_shot_5_wounded_aboard_train\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T06:49:16","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:49:16","slug":"la_times_egyptian_christian_fatally_shot_5_wounded_aboard_train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23953","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Egyptian Christian fatally shot, 5 wounded, aboard train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty policeman opened fire aboard a train Tuesday in southern Egypt, killing one Christian and wounding five less than two weeks after the New Year&#8217;s Day bombing at a church in Alexandria that killed 25 Coptic Christians, according to the state news agency.<\/p>\n<p>There were few details on the incident and it was unclear whether the shooting was sectarian related. The state news agency, MENA, quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying a Muslim police officer boarded a Cairo-bound train in the town of Samalut in Minya province and began firing a handgun. The official said a 71-year-old Coptic man was killed and his wife and four other Christians \u201d\u201d three women and a man \u201d\u201d were wounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-egypt-christians-20110112,0,7428721.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty policeman opened fire aboard a train Tuesday in southern Egypt, killing one Christian and wounding five less than two weeks after the New Year&#8217;s Day bombing at a church in Alexandria that killed 25 Coptic Christians, according to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23953\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}