{"id":188183,"date":"2025-01-09T01:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-arson-confirmed-in-capitol-building-fire-liberia-police-identify-suspects\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T01:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T23:18:56","slug":"liberia-arson-confirmed-in-capitol-building-fire-liberia-police-identify-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-arson-confirmed-in-capitol-building-fire-liberia-police-identify-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Arson Confirmed in Capitol Building Fire &#8211; Liberia Police Identify Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia National Police (LNP) has confirmed that the December 18, 2024, fire that destroyed the joint chambers of Liberia&#8217;s Capitol Building was deliberately set in an act of arson. The blaze caused extensive damage to the legislative seat of power and has sparked a nationwide call for justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">President Joseph Boakai, visiting the site on the day of the incident, directed the Ministry of Justice to ensure a thorough investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Police&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501080497.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia National Police (LNP) has confirmed that the December 18, 2024, fire that destroyed the joint chambers of Liberia&#8217;s Capitol Building was deliberately set in an act of arson. The blaze caused extensive damage to the legislative seat of power and has sparked a nationwide call for justice. President Joseph Boakai, visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660971:297a3f26b5a453cec49edf92eda8cb26:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,23290,6797,9887,8743,6600,9252,4712,1107,257,662,254,4360],"class_list":["post-188183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-building","tag-capitol","tag-confirmed","tag-fire","tag-identify","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspects"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660971:297a3f26b5a453cec49edf92eda8cb26:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}