{"id":37721,"date":"2019-03-27T23:23:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37721"},"modified":"2019-03-27T23:23:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:23:22","slug":"iraq-orders-arrest-of-ex-governor-after-deadly-ferry-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37721","title":{"rendered":"Iraq orders arrest of ex-governor after deadly ferry sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nAHMEDABAD, India: Nine Iranians accused of setting their ship ablaze to try and destroy heroin stashed aboard have been rescued by India\u2019s coast guard and held for drug offenses, officials said Wednesday.<br \/>The crew made \u201cdesperate attempts to run away\u201d when approached by authorities off the coast of Gujarat in India\u2019s west, a statement from the state\u2019s anti-terror squad said.<br \/>\u201cIndian Coast Guard Ship chased the boat and when apprehension became inevitable, its crew set the boat ablaze to destroy the evidences (sic),\u201d the statement said.<br \/>The coast guard managed to seize 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of heroin before the stricken boat \u2014 which had 24,000 liters of fuel and gas cylinders aboard \u2014 exploded and sank.<br \/>Nine men \u2014 all Iranians \u2014 were plucked from the sea and taken into custody. Based on their interrogation, the boat was believed to have been loaded in Pakistan at the port of Gwadar, the statement said.<br \/>The heroin seized has a street value of $72.5 million, officials added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AHMEDABAD, India: Nine Iranians accused of setting their ship ablaze to try and destroy heroin stashed aboard have been rescued by India\u2019s coast guard and held for drug offenses, officials said Wednesday.The crew made \u201cdesperate attempts to run away\u201d when approached by authorities off the coast of Gujarat in India\u2019s west, a statement from the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721","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=37721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}