{"id":4283,"date":"2014-07-20T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T04:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2014-07-20T11:26:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T04:26:19","slug":"twenty-one-egyptian-soldiers-killed-in-new-valley-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/twenty-one-egyptian-soldiers-killed-in-new-valley-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one Egyptian soldiers killed in New Valley attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Smugglers killed 21\u00a0Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a military checkpoint in New Valley&#8217;s Farafra Oasis, western Egypt on Saturday evening, an Armed Forces statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement described the attack, which occurred near the Egyptian-Libyan borders, as &#8220;terrorist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Three gunmen were killed and four other soldiers were injured in the attack in which heavy weapons and rocket-propelled grenades were used, the state-run news agency MENA said.<\/p>\n<p>An exchange of fire between the soldiers and the smugglers caused an ammunition warehouse to explode after a rocket-propelled grenade hit it.<\/p>\n<p>Some extremists might be involved in the attack, a source at the military prosecution said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the second of its kind in the past three months as the same area was previously attacked by smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>Military reinforcements were sent to the site of the attack and the prosecution ordered the transfer of the victims&#8217; bodies back to Cairo in a military aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.aswatmasriya.com\/news\/view.aspx?id=313c1736-9f27-4dfb-b78d-8870e228908b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Smugglers killed 21\u00a0Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a military checkpoint in New Valley&#8217;s Farafra Oasis, western Egypt on Saturday evening, an Armed Forces statement said. The statement described the attack, which occurred near the Egyptian-Libyan borders, as &#8220;terrorist&#8221;. Three gunmen were killed and four other soldiers were injured in the attack in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,2972,2970,2971,257,4694,2958,2969,254,671],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptian-libyan-borders","tag-military-checkpoint","tag-new-valleys-farafra-oasis","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-rocket-propelled-grenades","tag-smugglers-killed-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}