{"id":30056,"date":"2019-01-21T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30056"},"modified":"2019-01-21T23:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T23:23:20","slug":"two-ships-catch-fire-in-kerch-strait-near-crimea-deaths-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30056","title":{"rendered":"Two ships catch fire in Kerch Strait near Crimea; deaths reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>At least 10 people died after two ships under the Tanzanian flag caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea on Monday evening, according to Russia&#8217;s state news agency TASS, citing the Russian Maritime Agency.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;Presumably, an explosion occurred (on one of the vessels). Then the fire spread to another vessel. A rescue tug is en route,&#8221; said a spokesman for the Russian Maritime Agency.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">A rescue operation is underway and crew members jumped into the waters to escape the flames, Russia&#8217;s transport ministry told Reuters.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)At least 10 people died after two ships under the Tanzanian flag caught fire in the Kerch Strait near Crimea on Monday evening, according to Russia&#8217;s state news agency TASS, citing the Russian Maritime Agency. &#8220;Presumably, an explosion occurred (on one of the vessels). Then the fire spread to another vessel. A rescue tug is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}