{"id":34967,"date":"2019-03-12T04:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34967"},"modified":"2019-03-12T04:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T04:22:19","slug":"un-staff-and-humanitarian-workers-among-victims-of-ethiopian-airlines-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34967","title":{"rendered":"UN staff and humanitarian workers among victims of Ethiopian Airlines crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight that <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/11\/africa\/black-box-found-boeing-ethiopian-air-crash-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday<\/a> was packed with humanitarian workers and international experts, many of whom were bound for a major United Nations environmental summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Twenty-one<strong> <\/strong>UN staff members were among the 157 people killed after Flight ET302 plummeted into a field outside Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, UN officials said on Monday, revising down a death toll provided to CNN earlier in the day.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The airline said passengers from at least 35 countries were on the flight, often referred to as a &#8220;UN shuttle&#8221; for ferrying staff between Addis Ababa, home of the African Union headquarters, and Nairobi, the UN&#8217;s headquarters in Africa. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday was packed with humanitarian workers and international experts, many of whom were bound for a major United Nations environmental summit in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.Twenty-one UN staff members were among the 157 people killed after Flight ET302 plummeted into a field outside Addis&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967","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=34967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}