{"id":39324,"date":"2019-05-11T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39324"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T21:22:15","slug":"french-hostage-says-ordeal-in-burkina-faso-was-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39324","title":{"rendered":"French hostage says ordeal in Burkina Faso was &#8216;hell&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Paris (CNN)<\/cite>A French hostage in Burkina Faso, freed in an overnight rescue this week in which two soldiers were killed, described the experience as &#8220;hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Laurent Lassimouillas was freed along with another Frenchman, an American woman and a South Korean woman in<strong> <\/strong>a French-led operation with the support of the US military. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/10\/africa\/hostage-rescue-burkina-faso-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The rescue occurred <\/a>between Thursday and Friday in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;I want to thank French authorities and Burkina Faso ones,&#8221;  Lassimouillas told reporters at the presidential palace in the capital of Ouagadougou before a meeting with Roch Marc Christian Kabor\u00e9, Burkina Faso&#8217;s President. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris (CNN)A French hostage in Burkina Faso, freed in an overnight rescue this week in which two soldiers were killed, described the experience as &#8220;hell.&#8221;Laurent Lassimouillas was freed along with another Frenchman, an American woman and a South Korean woman in a French-led operation with the support of the US military. The rescue occurred between&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39324","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\/39324","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=39324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}